Costs News

The court has jurisdiction to make an order for costs in a foreign currency on a summary assessment, the High Court has ruled. John Kimbell QC, sitting as a deputy High Court judge, said the court must determine which currency most truly re... view

The parents of a brain-damaged girl who won a High Court battle to take her to a hospital in Italy have been refused the costs of contesting an application by the Barts Health NHS Trust to withdraw her life-sustaining treatment. Mr Justice... view

The law firm acting for Iraqi civilians who successfully claimed that they had been mistreated by British troops has failed in a bid to have the 100% success fee for the test cases applied to all the other cases stayed pending their determinatio... view

A pre-assessment protocol for costs – which would require the receiving party to serve a costs summary – could help reduce the costs of the process, a new report has suggested. It also called on Costs Lawyers to exploit the poss... view