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25/07/2017
Chief Master Marsh considers the purpose and effect of commenting on incurred costs at a costs management hearing under CPR 3.15 and PD 3E.
25/07/2017
Davis LJ endorses Master Whalan’s approach to detailed assessment where costs budgets have been agreed or approved
18/05/2017
Coulson J warns against parties adopting an unrealistic approach to costs budgeting and in particular with regards to Precedent R.
05/03/2017
Carr J: “On a detailed assessment on a standard basis, the costs judge is bound by the agreed or approved cost budget, unless there is a good reason to depart from it.”
22/11/2016
Briggs LJ decides that cases which commence under the RTA and EL/PL protocols and settle prior to a disposal hearing attract the most generous fixed costs regime
13/09/2016
Pre-LASPO 2012 CFA can be transferred between firms, Master Leonard decides
02/06/2016
CPR 44.13 should be interpreted in a way that “more justly achieves what is plainly the purpose of the regime as divined from the Rules”, says Edis J.
01/06/2016
A motivation of personal trust and confidence between client and fee earner is not necessary to validate an assignment, HHJ Graham Wood QC decides– but admits his judgment may require appellate court review
19/04/2016
Part 36 did not preclude a judge from making an issue-based or proportionate costs order where a claimant had only succeeded on some issues. However, the constraints of Part 36 meant that it would be reasonable to deprive a claimant all or part of their costs only if it would be unjust to order otherwise, having regard to “all the circumstances of the case”
23/03/2016
A claimant awarded £5,000 in damages was entitled to recover his costs on the standard basis (budgeted at almost £129,000) following a defendant’s “inadequate” capped costs offer, a High Court judge has decided.
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