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JUSTICE COMMITTEE INQUIRY IN THE EFFECTS OF THE INCREASE IN COURT FEES: HOW TO RESPOND

July 21, 2015 · by gexall · in Costs, Members Content

The Justice Committee is holding an inquiry into the effects of the introduction and levels of the increased court fees. If anyone wants to send their responses to this blog, in addition to the inquiry, I will arrange a specific…

PRECEDENT H: PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER: LINKS TO THE USEFUL POSTS ON COSTS BUDGETING

July 1, 2014 · by gexall · in Civil Procedure, Costs, Members Content

There are now nearly 400 posts on this blog and some patterns are emerging. Some posts are read in the immediate aftermath of posting,  some keep on being read. Posts about Precedent H are part of those  keep on being…

ARGUMENT ABOUT TIME FOR SERVING COSTS BUDGET "MANIFEST NONSENSE": RATTAN -V- UBS CONSIDERED IN FULL

March 12, 2014 · by gexall · in Civil Procedure, Costs, Costs budgeting, Members Content, Relief from sanctions, Uncategorized

Highly technical points are now being taken as a matter of course. Some succeed. Some come to grief.  This is what happened to the point in relation to service of the Precedent H costs budget in Rattan -v- UBS  [2014] EWHC 665…

COSTS BUDGETING, CASE MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY: FREE BUNDLE PREPARATION FOR CASE MANAGEMENT HEARINGS: USEFUL DOCUMENTS AND LINKS

March 3, 2014 · by gexall · in Civil Procedure, Costs budgeting, Members Content, Useful links

Case management and costs budgeting remain one of the Jackson innovations we are still getting used to.  There are several useful guides that assist, plus one company offers a free service providing the bundle for the Case Management Conference. This…

CAN MR MITCHELL STILL GET HIS COSTS? A PROFESSOR'S OPINION

December 4, 2013 · by gexall · in Civil Procedure, Costs, Members Content, Relief from sanctions

The comments section is at the bottom right hand side of this blog and a comment from Professor Hibbert made earlier this week may have been missed by many. I set it out below. No doubt this will give rise to…

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