PROPORTIONALITY AND LITIGATION (2): WHERE DOES IT ALL START TO GO WRONG? (AND HOW DO YOU AVOID IT?)

This short series on proportionality is aimed, primarily, at protecting the client and the lawyer.  A client may be exposed to excessive costs and the lawyers get blamed for this.  There are (it is to be hoped) few cases where "disproportionate" costs are deliberately incurred.   In most cases the c...