COUNSEL’S FEE RECOVERABLE IN A £70,000 CASE STILL SUBJECT TO THE FIXED COSTS PROVISIONS: DECISION TODAY

In Dover v Finsbury Food Group Plc [2019] EWHC B11 (Costs), Master Brown found that counsel's fees can be recovered in a case that had been placed in the portal that subsequently settled for £70,000.

THE CASE The claimant was injured at work.  A CNF was submitted and the matter put on the portal. I...