COSTS MANAGEMENT AND PROPORTIONALITY IN ACTION
Issues of costs budgeting and proportionality were considered by Mr Justice Roth in Agents’ Mutual Limited -v- Gascoigne Halman [2016] CAT 21. It provides an interesting example of the judicial approach to proportionality and costs budgeting. “Proportionality is fundamental to…
COSTS BUDGETING: PILOT SCHEME IN THE CHANCERY DIVISION IN LEEDS
Leeds District Registry has a pilot scheme in relation to costs budgeting. It enables the parties to agree to limit the extent of costs budgeting. The parties can, by agreement, file a simple costs budget with the Directions Questionnaire. If…
COSTS BUDGETING: IT'S JUST A PHASE I'M GOING THROUGH
One advantage of going to conferences is that it usually gives rise to ideas for the blog. So speaking at the Association of Costs Lawyers conference yesterday has given rise to a whole host of issues which will be explored…
THIS COSTS BUDGETING THING – IT IS NOT THAT IMPORTANT: WELL THINK AGAIN
There are some important observations made by Mr Justice Roth in Agents’ Mutual Limited -v- Gascoigne Halman Limited [2016] EWHC 2315 (Ch) in relation to both costs budgeting and security for costs. KEY POINTS There is no duty on a…
COSTS BUDGETING, PROPORTIONALITY AND GROUP LITIGATION
In Various Claimants -v- Sir Robert McAlpine & others [2015] EWHC 3543 (QB) Mr Justice Supperstone (sitting with Master Leslie & Chief Master Gordon Saker) considered costs budgeting within a Group Litigation Order. “Recognising that this is a complex case…
CASE PROJECT MANAGEMENT: PRESENTATION BY H.H. JUDGE SIMON BROWN QC.
Attached to this post – Case Project Management (1) – are the slides that HH Judge Brown used in his recent address on Case Project Management to the Association of Cost Lawyers. Reproduced with his permission. KEY POINTS The slides take…
