Costs News

The High Court nearly halved a claimant’s £824,000 costs budget last month after finding that it was so disproportionate to the sums at stake and complexity of the case that “something has clearly gone wrong”. Mr Jus... view

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) has approved a range of changes to costs management aimed at dealing with the “significant delays in the pre-trial process” that it is causing. The CPRC was responding to the report of i... view

A copy of the  documentation sent out this morning by the ‘new bill of costs committee’ (referred to by Sir Rupert Jackson as the Hutton Committee) can be found here.  2015-07-31 BoC Guidance Document (inc Appendices) ... view

A retainer between Addleshaw Goddard’s (AG) and Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was a contentious business agreement (CBA) rather than a conditional fee agreement (CFA) and so the provisions of section 59 to 61 of the Solicitors Act appl... view

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