MEMBER NEWS: THE BACK CATALOGUE 3: THE COST BITES SERIES – 258 POSTS SO FAR AND NO SIGN OF STOPPING…

We can wager a bet (for charity of course) that 99.9% of litigators and 100% of litigants who read a judgment think – who paid the costs? The aim of this series, started in July 2022, was to enable practitioners to have a look at those reports that deal with costs – often as an almost “incidental” issue.  The aim is to enable practitioners to know what is going on “on the ground” in relation to awards of costs.  The series has grown far faster than I envisaged.  However I am to keep up with discussions in relation to costs, these are often of paramount importance to the client.

(This is actually a shop sign in Corfu. The photo had to be useful one day…)

THE SERIES SO FAR

 

Cost Bites 1: Use of a Partner in a Boutique Firm Can Lead to Lower Costs

Cost Bites 2: a Prospective Respondent Does Not Get the Costs of Attending Permission to Appeal Hearing

Cost Bites 3: Pro Bono Costs Orders Extended to Tribunals

Cost Bites 4: Court Overturned Non Party Against Local Authority in Children Case

Cost Bites 5: Costs in the Case Appropriate Once a Claimant Had Disclosed Documents in Relation to Security for Costs

Cost Bites 6: Getting a Schedule of Costs to Court

Cost Bites 7: Indemnity Costs When a Claimant Has Tried to Have a Second Bite of the Litigation Cherry

Cost Bites 8: Central London Hourly Rates the Rate Depends on the Litigation Not the Litigator

Cost Bites 9: Fares Fair in Judicial Review Proceedings You Can Have a Score Draw and Each Side Gets No Costs

Cost Bites 10: Interest on Costs Judge Finds It Appropriate to Backdate Interest

Cost Bites 10: Court of Appeal Unhappy At 730000 Bill for One Day Appeal Hourly Rates Above Guidelines Have to be Justified Counsels Fees Must be Reasonable and Proportionate

Cost Bites 12: a Defendant Who is Not a Party to An Appeal Can Still be Ordered to Pay the Costs of That Appeal

Cost Bites 13: a Summary Assessment of Costs in Action Too Many Lawyers No Need for a Qc

Cost Bites 14: Time for Payment of Damages There Should be Evidence to Support Any Application for Further Time

Cost Bites 15: Departing from the Guideline Rates for Specialist Work Done Outside London

Cost Bites 16: the Care Needed When Quantifying Costs Thrown Away 45 of Claimed Costs to be Paid on Account

Cost Bites 17: Failure to Engage with Criticism of Witness Statement Leads to Indemnity Costs Failing to Engage on Witness Statement Issues Can be Expensive

Cost Bites 18: Appropriate Charging Rates When a Grade C is Charged At Nothing

Cost Bites 19: Judge Exercises Discretion to Allow Claimant Qocs Protection in a Mixed Claim

Cost Bites 20: Court Makes a Third Part Costs Order on the Basis of Misconduct of Litigation Parties Get Their Just Desserts

Cost Bites 21: Receiving Party Not Confined to Provisional Assessment Costs When the Bill Settles for Less Than 75000 It Was Within the Defendants Gift to Make a Realistic Part 36 Offer

Cost Bites 22: Claimants Arguments to Avoid Paying Indemnity Costs Fail to Fly

Cost Bites 23: Claimant Fails in Application for Delivery of a Solicitors Bill of Costs Chamberlain Bills Had Been Sent a Signature on An Email Was Sufficient Electronic Delivery Complied

Cost Bites 24: Defendant Successful in Appeal Against Part 7 Costs in Case That Should Not Have Left the Portal

Cost Bites 25: Defendants Conduct Leads to Costs Being Award on the Indemnity Basis

Cost Bites 26: Defendants Conduct Was Far from Perfect But Did Not Justify An Award of Indemnity Costs

Cost Bites 27: What Does Proceedings Mean Court of Appeal Allows Appeal in Relation to Qocs and a Mixed Claim

Cost Bites 28: Appealing Against An Order for Costs the Major Hurdle Involved and the Relevance of a Non Part 36 Offer to Settle

Cost Bites 29: the Principles of Budgeting Considering and Applied 15 Reduction to Budget

Cost Bites 30: Other Peoples Budgets None of These Budgets is Unreasonable Or Disproportionate

Cost Bites 31: Asking the Judge to Determine Costs When the Parties Have Settled Issues You May Not Get What You Want

Cost Bites 32: Non Party Costs Orders Against Directors a Working Example

Cost Bites 32: Budgets Proportionality Counsels Fees Stratospheric Or Aspirational the Cost of Experts and the Costs of Trial

Cost Bites 34: Interlocutory Costs Orders Can be Made Against Parties with the Protection of Qocs It is Enforcement That May be An Issue

Cost Bites 36: the Point of a Payment on Account is to Reimburse the Successful Party Immediately

Cost Bites 37: Drafting the Schedule for Summary Assessment Defects Defaults and Remedies

Cost Bites 38: the Costs of An Appeal Should be Paid by the Losing Parties

Cost Bites 39: Why Costs Lawyers Have to Know About Proving Things

Cost Bites 40: No One Gets the Costs of An Amendment Which Were Far Too High Anyway

Cost Bites 41: Prejudgment Interest on Costs Considered But Refused

Cost Bites 43: Claimants Costs Incurred Before Cfa Signed Were Recoverable

Cost Bites 44: the Costs of Assessment the Relevance of Conduct Are Part 36 Offers Significant

Cost Bites 45: Court Rejects Defendants Application That Case Involving a Child be Budgeted Accepts Claimants Application for An Interim Payment on Costs But Not the Amount Claimed

Cost Bites 46: Non Party Costs Order Made Against Director of Insolvent Company

Cost Bites 47: Proving Or Disproving That There Was a Valid Retainer Apportioning Recoverable Costs Between Two Defendants

Cost Bites 48: Where the Only Relevance of the Budget is to Set An Upper Limit on Recoverable Costs the Escalating Costs of Metaphorical Warfare

Cost Bites 49: a Lawyer Who Acts for Himself Has a Difficult Time Getting Paid Solicitor Defendant Confined to Litigant in Person Rates

Cost Bites 49: Are the Costs of a Medical Agency Recoverable in the Fixed Costs Regime

Cost Bites 50: Useful Links on Costs from Kings Chambers Take Your Pick

Cost Bites 51: Case for False Imprisonment Was Appropriate for the Fast Track Not Small Claims Track Decision Upheld on Appeal

Cost Bites 52: We Want It All and We Want It Now Court Refuses Claimants Application for a Summary Assessment of Costs

Cost Bites 54: Those Costs Budgets May be Agreed But They Are Neither Reasonable Nor Proportionate and the Court is Going to Say So

Cost Bites 55: a Non Party Costs Order Not Made Against Claimants Solicitors in Relation to Costs of Assessment Qocs May be a Problem for the Defendant But This is Not the Way to Solve It

Cost Bites 56: If You Discontinue Against a Defendant You Have to Pay the Costs

Cost Bites 57: Asking the Judge to Determine the Costs After Settlement You May Not Always Get What You Want Court of Appeal Version

Cost Bites 59: Costs Against the Claimant Even Though the Defendants Application Was Unsuccessful However the Judge Felt Totally Unable to Rely on the Costs Schedule

Cost Bites 60: the Court Would Not Retrospectively Reallocate a Case to the Small Claims Track

Cost Bites 71: Points of Dispute Struck Out Because They Were Non Compliant Paying Parties Raising Objections Have to Use Their Judgment

Cost Bites 72: Costs Between Creditor and Supplier Under the Consumer Credit Act Creditors Argument Hits a Blackpool Rock

Cost Bites 73: Appeal on Hourly Rates Did Not Go as the Appellant Planned the Guideline Hourly Rates and Detailed Assessment

Cost Bites 74: Claimants Have to Pay the Costs of Discontinued Application for a Group Litigation Order Counting the Coppers

Cost Bites 75: Liability to Costs Retrospective Attempt to Vary Costs Budget Without Prejudice Offer Affects Liability to Costs Made Prior to That Offer

Cost Bites 76: Court Did Not Make An Order for Costs Against Health Authority in a Welfare Case There Are Other Ways a Court Can Show Its Disapproval of a Partys Conduct of a Case

Cost Bites 76: Judge Rejects Argument That Terms of Discounted Conditional Fee Agreements Meant the Solicitors Were Not Entitled to Any Costs of All Compulsory Reading Here and Much to Think About

Cost Bites 78: Judge Awards Guideline Rates Even in Heavy Commercial Case

Cost Bites 80: Solicitor Working Under a Cfa Has a Duty to Keep of the Staggeringly High Level of Costs in the Action Including Experts High Court Decision

Cost Bites 81: a Successful Appellant Gets Their Costs the Court Would Not Give a Blank Cheque in Relation to Payment on Account of Costs

Cost Bites 82: When the Size of the Costs Starts to Swamp the Size of the Estate An Exhortation to Parties Involved in Inheritance Claims

Cost Bites 83: Defendant Serving Budget Late Scrapes Home in a Borderline Case

Cost Bites 84: Medical Agency Must Provide a Breakdown of Its Bill to Show What the Expert Was Paid Decision on Appeal

Cost Bites 85: Judge Had the Power to Make Costs Order Which Included Costs of Applications Against Non Party

Cost Bites 87: Issues Relating to Exceeding the Budget Left to the Costs Judge

Cost Bites 88: Judge Refuses Defendants Application for Non Party Disclosure Against An Agency Seeking a Breakdown of Fees

Cost Bites 89: a Supreme Court Order for Costs Construed Costs Were Essentially Restricted to Payment of One Party Two Silks and One Junior

Cost Bites 90: Claimants Liable to Pay 5 of Defendants Costs Human Rights Personal Injuries and Mixed Claims

Cost Bites 91: Conversion of Currency When a Receiving Party Has Paid Its Lawyers in Euros

Cost Bites 92: the Transit of Venus the Wisdom of Solomon and the Question of Whether Time Spent At Case Management Meetings is Recoverable Inter Partes

Cost Bites 93: Solicitor is Not Liable to Pay Fees When They Were Acting a Professional Deputy

Cost Bites 94: Solicitor and Own Client Costs Costs Budgeting Budgeting Overspend the Duty to Warn the Appropriate Success Fee

Cost Bites 95: a Solicitors Bill is Paid When Funds Are Deducted from Damages and a Compliant Bill Sent to the Client

Cost Bites 96: a Replacement Budget Was Served Late Relief from Sanctions Granted

Cost Bites 97: Claimant Not Allowed 62 3 Hours to Draft the Letter of Claim What Should Letters of Claim Contain

Cost Bites 98: the Similarities in Reports Should be Reflected in the Costs of Reports

Cost Bites 99: a Summary Assessment on a Standard Basis After a Solicitor and Own Client on An Indemnity Basis There is Much to Learn Here

Cost Bites 100: a Litigant in Person Cannot Recover the Costs of a Non Solicitor Entity

Cost Bites 101: Recovering the Costs of English Solicitors in Scottish Courts This Doesnt End Well

Cost Bites 102: Nope Youre Not Getting 870 An Hour Credit Card Rates Are Reduced

Cost Bites 103: Interim Bills Were Not Final Bills Client Could Still Have Them Assessed

Cost Bites 104: the Latest Battle in a Wider Forensic Legal War Defendant Not Entitled to Non Party Costs Order Against a Company It Asserted Was the Real Party in the Dispute

Cost Bites 105: How to Lose 1 4 Million in Costs a Short Report of a Sharp Shock for the Claimants Solicitors

Cost Bites 106: Barristers Beware Counsel on Direct Access Not Entitled to Recover Costs from Their Former Client An Unfair Term Meant They Were Entitled to Nothing

Cost Bites 107: a Non Party Costs Order Should Not be Made Against a Solicitor Representing a Claim on a Cfa Basis Seeking a Financial Benefit Did Not Mean They Were Acting Outside Their Role as Soli

Cost Bites 108: Solicitor and Own Client Costs the Need for the Lawyer to Give Accurate Estimates of Cost and the Consequences of Inaccuracy This Does Not End Well for the Solicitor

Cost Bites 109: Solicitor and Own Client Costs a Review of the Authorities

Cost Bites 110: the Importance of Attendance Notes Counsels Fees Included

Cost Bites 111: Looking At Detailed Assessments 1 You Shouldnt be Claiming 62 3 Hours for Drafting a Letter of Claim

Cost Bites 112: Solicitors Bill Assessed At Nil the Ombudsmans Informal Resolution is Binding on a Solicitor Permission Was Needed to Revise the Bill and Would Never be Given

Cost Bites 113: Looking At Detailed Assessments 2 Hourly Rates the Appropriate Amount and the Impact of Complexity

Cost Bites 114: Looking At Detailed Assessments 3 Schedules of Damages Under the Microscope They Have Not Been Drafted Systematically Or with Proper Care and Attention

Cost Bites 115: Looking At Detailed Assessments 4 Costs of Research Noting Briefs and Photocopying

Cost Bites 116: You Cant Avoid Paying the Costs of An Application and Appeal Just Because They Werent in the Costs Budget

Cost Bites 117: the Court Can Order a Payment on Account of Costs Where the Schedule is High But Not Excessive

Cost Bites 118: Looking At Detailed Assessment 5 Recordings Made by Solicitors Need Not be Disclosed on Solicitor Own Client Assessment

Cost Bites 119: Costs Budgeting Defendant Allowed to Vary Its Budget to Include Costs Already Incurred Obtaining Surveillance Evidence

Cost Bites 120: Qocs and Hire Charges Decision That Claimant Should Pay Costs Outside Qocs Overturned on Appeal

Cost Bites 121: Summary Assessment of Costs to Award a Lower Figure Just Because Reductions Are Often Made Would be Wrong

Cost Bites 122: the Appropriate Order for Costs When Both Sides Win and Both Sides Lose the Importance of the Costs Budget

Cost Bites 123: Costs of Budgeting Reduced by 25 to Reflect Claimants Unrealistic Budget

Cost Bites 124: Early View as to Value of a Personal Injury Case Was Not Unreasonable Defendants Appeal Dismissed

Cost Bites 126: the Summary Assessment of Costs the Impact of Home Working Can the Hourly Rates be Uprated on the Basis of Where the Fee Earner Lives and Works

Cost Bites 127: Do the Guideline Hourly Rates Apply in Family Proceedings

Cost Bites 128: When It is Appropriate for the Judge to Make No Order for Costs

Cost Bites 129: Why Everyone Has to Understand the Indemnity Principle in Costs

Cost Bites 130: What Costs Are Recoverable When a Client Sacks a Solicitor Working Under a Cfa Stick Or Twist

Cost Bites 131: Time Limit for Assessment Extended When Beneficiary Challenges Costs Court of Appeal Decision Today

Cost Bites 132: Interim Payments for Costs and Costs of a Consequential Hearing

Cost Bites 133: 196000 Awarded on a Summary Assessment in a Family Case

Cost Bites 134: the Fact That the Defendant Had a Costs Order in Another Action Was Not Grounds for Refusing An Interim Order for Costs

Cost Bites 134: An Example of a Summary Assessment of Costs in Action

Cost Bites 135: Costs of Solicitor Attending Rehabilitation Case Managements May be Recoverable But It Depends

Cost Bites 137: Wasted Costs Order Was Appropriate Appeal Dismissed Some Notes on Procedure

Cost Bites 138: in the Absence of a Charging Clause the Solicitor Could Not be Paid for Acting as An Executor See Also Proving Things

Cost Bites 138: a Claimant Was Not Awarded Costs Against His Own Solicitors What Happens When You Bury Your Head in the Sand

Cost Bites 140: Want to See Summary Assessment in Action Manifestly Excessive Costs Substantially Reduced Even When Costs Were Being Assessed on the Indemnity Basis

Cost Bites 141: Interest on Costs Prejudgment Interest Allowed Post Judgment Interest Deferred for a Period

Cost Bites 142: Costs on An Unsuccessful Application to Appeal in a Family Case

Cost Bites 143: Judicial Observations on the Costs of Family Litigation Disputes King Lear is a Tragedy and All Will Not End Well

Cost Bites 144: Summary Assessment Reduced from 42267 to 22000 a Case in Point

Cost Bites 145: Agency Should Provide a Breakdown of Figures for Cost of a Medical Report Any Ajudication on Proportionality in All Its Component Parts Demands Transparency

Cost Bites 146: Litigant in Person Using Direct Access Counsel Was to File a Costs Budget

Cost Bites 147: Who is the Successful Party What Sums Should be Deducted for Losing on Certain Points Does a Calderbank Offer Matter

Cost Bites 148: the Judge Was Right to Order Costs to be Paid Immediately After a Trial on Liability

Cost Bites 149: Solicitors Act Assessment Were These Statute Bills Yes They Were

Cost Bites 150: Was This a Compliant Statute Bill No It Wasnt Personal Injury Lawyers Beware

Cost Bites 151: Does Qocs Apply to Detailed Assessment Yes It Does But the Defendant Has Permission to Appeal

Cost Bites 152: a Party Must Provide a Schedule of Costs for a Hearing Even If It Doesnt Expect to Get Paid

Cost Bites 153: Another Round in the Breakdown of Medical Report Fees Ongoing Saga the Invoice Should Provide a Breakdown

Cost Bites 154: Solicitors Costs and Estimates a Case That Every Private Client and Every Litigator Should Read

Cost Bites 155: How Particulars Should Points of Dispute be Ainsworth Principles Apply to Interpartes Assessments

Cost Bites 156: Costs Budgeting Was Appropriate in the Case of a Seriously Injured Child It Helps the Claimant as Much as the Defendant

Cost Bites 157: Agreement as to Costs Between Client and Solicitor Was Contractually Binding Application for Solicitors Act Assessment Struck Out

Cost Bites 158: Solicitor Was Only Entitled to Success Fee and No Further Costs High Court Decision on Appeal

Cost Bites 159: Deducting Costs from the Clients Damages the Golden Rule That the Client Should be Kept Informed

Cost Bites 160: Solicitor and Own Client Assessments and the Importance of Estimates of Costs

Cost Bites 162: You Cant Send Someone to Prison for Not Paying Your Costs You Really Cant

Cost Bites 163: No Deduction from Successful Respondents Costs a Point Or Two About Clients Submissions

Cost Bites 170: If You Make An Application Have It Heard But Withdraw It Prior to Judgment Then You Are Paying All the Costs Although Not Necessarily on the Indemnity Basis

Cost Bites 171: Defendant Who Received Legal Aid to Defend Civil Committal Proceedings Can Only Recover Costs At Legal Aid Rates

Cost Bites 172: Claimant Whose Case Was Struck Out Had to Pay the Defendants Costs

Cost Bites 173: Costs Budgeting After the Event If the Application Was Not Prompt the Budget Will Not be Varied

Cost Bites 174: a Trustee in Bankruptcy Has No Special Status When It Comes to Costs He Has Not Suggested That Had He Won He Would Nobly Decline to Ask for His Costs

Cost Bites 175: Solicitors Bills Were Not Interim Statute Bills and Could be Assessed Court of Appeal Decision Today

Cost Bites 176: a Warning to All Would be Intervenors in Civil Proceedings It Could be Costly 110000 in This Case

Cost Bites 177: Successful Claimant Recovers Only 20 of Its Costs Still Gets An Interim Payment of 2 Million

Cost Bites 178: Validity and Enforceability of Contentious Business Agreement Upheld on Appeal

Cost Bites 179: Challenging a Provisional Assessment Claimants Failure to Comply with the Rules Leads to Challenge Being Rejected

Cost Bites 180: Excessive Budget Leads to Party Being Ordered to Pay the Costs of a Budgeting Hearing

Cost Bites 181: What Percentage Should be Paid on Account of Costs

Cost Bites 182: Another Case of a Claimant Paying the Costs of a Budgeting Hearing Because of An Unrealistic Approach

Cost Bites 184: Court of Appeal Upholds Decision That Counsel on Direct Access Not Entitled to Recover Fees from Their Former Client Because the Contractual Terms Were Unfair

Cost Bites 185: Varying the Amount Payable After a Claimant Discontinues the Court Can Take Into Account Pre Discontinuance Conduct

Cost Bites 186: My Case Was So Hopeless I Shouldnt Have to Pay Your Costs Not a Wholly Attractive Argument

Cost Bites 187: Supreme Court Overturns Court of Appeal Decision in Menzies V Oakwood the Bill Can Go Forward for Assessment

Cost Bites 188: Making a Peremptory Order Following a Failure to Pay Interlocutory Costs the Need for the Respondent to Provide Evidence

Cost Bites 189: Costs of Over 1 Million for Arguing About Whether There Should be a Trial of a Preliminary Issue

Cost Bites 190: Interim Statute Bills Discounted Cfa Arrangements and Parallel Reality a Difficult Mixture

Cost Bites 191: Costs Bill Reduced to Nil Because of Misconduct on Assessment This is the Worse Example of Tampering with a File of Papers That I Have Ever Encountered

Cost Bites 193: How Costs of 300000 Could Have Been Avoided Court of Appeal Observations

Cost Bites 194: Claimant Who Succeeded on Some But Not All Issues Awarded Costs on the Standard Basis

Cost Bites 196: Costs in a Family Case Every Pound They Spend Fighting Each Other is a Pound That Will Not be Available for Them and Their Children

Cost Bites 197: Another Round in the Medical Report Agency Fee Saga It Was Not Proportional to Order a Breakdown of the Fee

Cost Bites 198: Yet Another Round in the Medical Report Agency Fee Saga Claimant Ordered to Provide a Breakdown of the Bill

Cost Bites 199: Higher London Rate Can be Used for a Specific Application Even If Lower Rates May Apply Later

Cost Bites 200: the Court Would Not Defer the Payment of Costs Following An Interim Hearing

Cost Bites 201: Council Not Granted Permission to Appeal on Academic Points Where the Real Issue Was About Costs

Cost Bites 202: the Difficulty If Not Impossibility of Proving An Implied Retainer Prior to Legal Help Being Obtained

Cost Bites 203: a Summary Assessment in Practice Proportionality is Not Just About Reducing Costs to the Lowest Possible Figure

Cost Bites 204: a Success Fee Cannot be Recovered as Damages Supreme Court Decision An Order That Provides for One Party to Pay Another Partys Costs is a Costs Order

Cost Bites 205: the Court Can Change Its Mind After Making An Order on the Papers the Dangers of Eternal Games of Ping Pong

Cost Bites 206: the Court Would Not Make a Substantial Order for Costs When An Amendment to a Reply Abandons An Allegation of Fraud Also the Dangers of Pleading Fraud Without Substantive Evidence to

Cost Bites 207: the Breakdown of Expert Fees When An Agency is Involved Again the Receiving Party Apples and Pears and An Election Has to be Made

Cost Bites 208: a Clients Challenge to the Deduction of Their Own Solicitors Costs in Personal Injury Action

Cost Bites 209: a Clients Challenge to the Deduction of Their Own Solicitors Costs Was This a Cfa Or a Dba Was the Solicitor Obliged to Offer a Dba

Cost Bites 210: Interim Bills Were Not Statute Bills the Client Has the Right to An Assessment of the Final Bill Special Circumstances Considered

Cost Bites 211: the Assessment of Costs Large Elements of Points of Dispute Struck Out Because of Inadequate Particularisation

Cost Bites 212: Arguments About Deductions of Costs from Clients Damages the Consumer Rights Act 2015 and the Sra Code of Conduct

Cost Bites 213: How Does the Court Approach Assessment When Costs Are Deducted from the Clients Damages

Cost Bites 214: Should the Court Make An Order for Costs Against a Claimant When the Costs Budget Has Been Greatly Reduced the Issues Considered

Cost Bites 215: Non Compliant Points of Dispute Struck Out But the Compliant Parts Remain

Cost Bites 216: This is a Case of High Value However the Claimants Costs Are Disproportional and the Hourly Rates Are Excessive

Cost Bites 217: Claimants to Pay the Defendants Costs of the Budgeting Hearing the Proposed Budget Was on the Wrong Side of the Line

Cost Bites 218: Junior Counsels Fees Not Recoverable in Privy Council Case Where the Cfa Was Not Lawful

Cost Bites 219: Disbursements What is a Reasonable and Proportional Interpreters Fee the Court Must Have Regard to the Market

Cost Bites 220: Qocs Protection Does Not Apply to Co Claimants Who Do Not Bring a Claim for Personal Injury Nor Does It Apply When a Case is Struck Out

Cost Bites 221: a Failure to Agree to Mediate Did Not Lead to a Reduction in a Successful Defendants Costs

Cost Bites 222: a Retrospective Conditional Fee Agreement Was Still Valid and the Paying Party Had to Pay Court of Appeal Decision

Cost Bites 223: How Much Does An Unsuccessful Application to Adduce Expert Evidence Cost 111616 Approximately Oh and Plus Your Own Costs

Cost Bites 224: Solicitors Act Assessment Costs Judge Dismisses Claimants Part 8 Action Because There Were Part 7 Proceedings Pending Defendants Costs Described as Incredible

Cost Bites 224: a Peek Inside the Budgeting Process Proportionality Trumps Reasonableness

Cost Bites 226: Are the Costs of Delegation Recoverable Potentially But There is a Caveat It Must Not Lead to Increased Costs

Cost Bites 227: the Judge Was Right to Order the Claimant to Pay 80 of the Costs of Two Applications Decision Upheld on Appeal

Cost Bites 228: Defendant Solicitor to Pay the Costs of the Claimant Issuing Proceedings Seeking a Statute Bill

Cost Bites 229: the Correct Way of Calculating a Success Fee in a Personal Injury Case the Solicitor Does Not Have An Automatic Entitlement to 25 of the Damages

Cost Bites 230: Client Unsuccessful in Application for Assessment of Bills Rendered More Than 12 Months Prior to Issue Claimants Arguments Go Nowhere

Cost Bites 231: the Claimants Reasonable Valuation of the Case Meant It Did Not Come Within the Pre Action Protocol However the Facts of the Accident Itself Would Not Have Taken It Outside the Prot

Cost Bites 232: Costs Judge Rejects Argument That There Should be a Short Cut to Approval of Solicitor and Own Client Costs from a Protected Partys Damages

Cost Bites 233: Vardy V Rooney Some Extra Time on the Costs Issues Claimants Conduct Did Not Cross the Line No Reduction of Costs of Appeal

Cost Bites 234: a Reminder That a Solicitors Act Assessment Can Sometimes be An Expensive Process for a Claimant

Cost Bites 235: How Important Are Estimates When Determining Solicitor and Own Client Costs

Cost Bites 236: Costs Budgeting Can be Retrospective Budget Considered from the Date of the Ccmc Not 11 Months Later

Cost Bites 237: Throughout History Lawyers Have Had a Bad Reputation Commonsense and Proportionality Considered in the Family Courts

Cost Bites 238: When a Client Disputes the Solicitors Costs the Judges View on Memory Witnesses and Statements Drafted with the Guiding Hand of the Claimants Solicitor

Cost Bites 239: How Much Needs to be Explained to a Client Entering Into a Cfa

Cost Bites 240: There is Not a Catch 22 Position in Relation to the Drafting of These Conditional Fee Agreements

Cost Bites 241: Legal Ombudsmans Decision in Relation to Failure to Inform the Client About Costs Was Not Irrational Solicitor Pays 35000

Cost Bites 242: the Wording of the Retainer Did Not Enable the Solicitor to Render Interim Statute Bills the Bills Had Insufficient Information in Any Event

Cost Bites 243: Employment Tribunal Did Not Err When It Ordered the Applicant to Pay Up to 210000 in Costs

Cost Bites 244: When Are Indemnity Costs Appropriate Should the Fees of Junior Counsel be Recovered in Full a Summary Assessment in the Commercial Courtconsidered

Cost Bites 245: What is the Appropriate Response If a Schedule of Costs is Served Late the Rules the Guidance and the Case Law Considered

Cost Bites 246: the Recoverability of Probate Costs in Fatal Claims How Does a Party Prove Their Case

Cost Bites 247: Should a Solicitor Respond to Part 18 Questions About the Payment of Commission the High Court Considers the Point Today

Cost Bites 248: Seeing a Summary Assessment in Action Why Are There Two Statements of Costs and Why Do They Vary So Much

Cost Bites 249: Should a Costs Order be Stayed Should the Defendant be Ordered to Pay Costs Looking At a Summary Assessment in Action Are the Costs Disproportional

Cost Bites 250: Should the Claimants Solicitor be Entitled to Recover a Full Success Fee and the Ate Premium a Decision Made on Appeal

Cost Bites 251: Points of Dispute Must be Properly Particularised Or They Will be Struck Out High Court Decision Today Considered

Cost Bites 252: When Can a Solicitor Properly Terminate a Retainer Was the Client Thrown to the Lions

Cost Bites 254: Does Your Client Have Capacity An Important Point When Considering the Validity of the Retainer An Issue Considered in the Scco Today

Cost Bites 255: Some Important Lessons Here Legal Ombudsman Holds That a Firm Acting on a Dba Cannot be Paid Twice for the Same Work Full Refund Ordered with Interest

Cost Bites 257: Solicitor and Own Client Assessments and Unusual Costs Why the Attendance Note is Often the Solicitors Best Friend

Cost bites 258: Does the fact that one of the unsuccessful defendants is a litigant in person mean that they should pay less costs? An issue considered in the High Court.