COST BITES 175: SOLICITOR’S BILLS WERE NOT INTERIM STATUTE BILLS AND COULD BE ASSESSED: COURT OF APPEAL DECISION TODAY

In the judgment today in Signature Litigation LLP v Ivanishvili [2024] EWCA Civ 901 the Court of Appeal upheld an earlier decision of Costs Judge Leonard that a series of bills rendered by the appellant solicitors were not interim statute bills.  That meant that the bills, totalling, £13 million, wh...