The High Court has delivered the most significant judgment since the implementation of the use Precedent T for budget revisions in October 2020, and the provisions of CPR 3.15A. The…
The sanction imposed for failing to file a costs budget when required applied to future costs only in the recent appeal case of Hardy v Skeels (04.03.21, County Court at Stoke). The…
In the much-publicised libel claim of Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney, each party was required to file a costs budget that detailed the costs incurred to date and the amount…
New duties and obligations will be placed on commercial litigators from the 6 April 2021 – Anna Lockyer and Professor Dominic Regan discuss the key features of these changes, their…
From 6th April Trial witness statements in the Business and Property Courts are subject to drastic reforms . Radical features include 1. A duty to explain to a witness at the outset the proper purpose and…
Earlier this week, following the judgement in Puharic v Silverbond Enterprises Ltd [2021] the High Court confirmed that a 90% payment on account of costs was a reasonable sum for…
Professor Dominic Regan and Andrew McAulay, Partner and Head of the Costs and Litigation Funding team at Clarion, discuss what might be in store this year for Civil Procedure, Funding…
More changes are coming to costs in the latest amendments to the CPR – Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2021, which comes into force on 6 April 2021, and the 127th…
