The New Law Journal has just relaunched their website (and very nice it is too). They have a section devoted to legal costs (click link). Also available are some of the excellent costs articles from the costs team at Kings Chambers (click link) although the indexing could possibly do with a bit more [...]
Here we are in the middle of August and you find that the rest of the office is away on holiday and it’s too wet to go outside to play. To help pass the time why not play Clay Cost Muppet Shooting (external link) courtesy of Box Legal? Apparently, no cost muppets were [...]
Negotiating settlement of legal costs can be difficult at the best of times. However, the last thing one wants at the end of a difficult negotiation is to discover that there has been no settlement at all or, at least, not on the terms that you thought.
In the case of Amer v London Borough [...]
At the end of a costs presentation I recently gave to some solicitor clients I was asked if the issue of proportionality was one that still carried any weight in legal costs disputes.
Given how central the issue of proportionality was meant to be when the Civil Procedure Rules were introduced, it is strange that this [...]
I assume readers are familiar with search engines such as Google and Yahoo.
In addition to the ordinary search results they produce, they also also show sponsored links. This works by allowing advertisers to purchase the right to have their advert displayed when certain keywords are typed into the search engine. For example, [...]
I previously reported (see post) on the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) walking out of talks on extending fixed costs in personal injury cases. The latest news is that APIL is now back in. APIL has explained its decision to rejoin the talks being due to the fact that the Civil Justice Council agreed [...]
In the past, when meeting people for the first time, I have always dreaded being asked what it is I do for a living. To a non-lawyer there is no easy way to explain the role of a defendant costs consultant. However, the recent furore over MPs’ expenses has made my task easier.
Now, when [...]
The, now revoked, Collective Conditional Fee Agreement Regulations 2000 state:
“5. (1) Where a collective conditional fee agreement provides for a success fee the agreement must provide that, when accepting instructions in relation to any specific proceedings the legal representative must prepare and retain a written statement containing -
(a) his assessment of the probability of the [...]
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An article of mine was recently published in the Solicitors Journal on the future of the legal costs industry. For those who haven’t already read it, it can be found here (click link). Sure to ruffle a few feathers.