Recommended reading today is a useful report from PIC available here in relation to a decision in Hardy -v- Skeelis (4th March 2021, County Court at Stoke, HHJ Rawlings). The appeal decision confirms that the sanctions imposed for failing to file a costs budget timeously only apply to future costs,...
The lack of any previously reported cases on this point is hardly surprising. The successful party’s representative would not normally wish to wash his dirty laundry in public, whilst the representative of the losing party would not want to publicise the decision for obvious reasons.
I myself successfully secured a decision from the Bristol County Court recovering pre Budget costs for a Claimant 18 months ago when at a previous firm. I inherited the file from a former colleague, so I am not tainted with having the failure of not filed a Budget in the first place.
Nevertheless the publication of Hardy v. Skeelis is welcome. And good law.