COST BITES 236 : COSTS BUDGETING CAN BE RETROSPECTIVE : BUDGET CONSIDERED FROM THE DATE OF THE CCMC NOT 11 MONTHS LATER

Can the court ever set a costs budget retrospectively?  In this case the judge held that it could, further there were good reasons for doing so in this case.

 
"I do not accept that the Court is unable to make a costs management order now, setting out its view as to the reasonableness (or not)...