The new costs rules introduce a new concept of the "complexity band". Here we look at the bands within the intermediate track and the rules relating to helping the court in relation to allocation within those bands.
COMPLEXITY BANDS AND THE PRACTICE DIRECTION
Practice Direction 26.3 states ...
Yet another example of supreme idiocy from those who run the civil justice system. Bearing in mind the difference in recoverable costs I predict that there will be a vast amount of satellite litigation about which band a case should be placed in, and that in 6 months’ time the courts will be even more clogged up than they are now trying to deal with it.