Forewarned is Forearmed
17 July 2023
Author: Nick McDonnell. The FRC reforms coming into force on 1 October 2023 currently captures all Clinical Negligence claims valued at £100,000 or less, where the date of incident occurs on or after...
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Manchester Messenger – July 2023
12 July 2023
In the July edition of The Messenger; the monthly magazine of The Manchester Law Society, Nick McDonnell and Colin Campbell provide a legal costs update. An abundance of cases this month. First, costs...
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Further success for Kain Knight as Defendant solicitor costs reduced from £14,000 to £68
10 July 2023
In this long-running solicitor costs dispute case Optimal claim limited T/A Optimal solicitors and Dariusz Glab, the Defendant challenged certain elements of the Bill prepared on behalf of Optimal who...
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Civil Costs Case Law Update – June 2023
10 July 2023
ABC v Derbyshire County Council [2023] EWHC 1337 (KB) 6 June 2023. Following the dismissal of the Claimants’ claims under the Human Rights Act, the Court considered whether they had the benefit of Q...
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Can a lawyer’s attendance at Case Management Meetings and upon Deputies be included within a costs budget?
26 June 2023
Kain Knight’s Kristie Thomson considers whether a solicitor’s time costs for attending on case managers and deputies are claimable, in principle, at all as costs following the judgment in our case...
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“ChatGPT, write me an article on AI in the legal industry.”
15 June 2023
By Benjamin Wilson, Senior Associate. It would not be too surprising if most professionals in the UK were still under the impression that Artificial Intelligence (AI) was something seen in the movies ...
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Spotlight on: Thomas Spanyol, Senior Costs Lawyer
15 June 2023
“Almost 24 years ago, I secured a job as a “taxation clerk”. At the time, I had little idea about what that meant and no idea where the path I had started on would lead me. Given tha...
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Commercial Costs Case Law Update – June 2023
15 June 2023
Brierley v Otuo & Ors [2023] EWHC 275 (SCCO) By Kelly Line, Costs Lawyer Costs Judge Nagalingham recently refused the Defendants’ application for the Claimant to redraw their Bill of Costs on th...
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Manchester Messenger – June 2023
8 June 2023
In the June 2023 edition of The Messenger; the monthly magazine of The Manchester Law Society, Nick McDonnell and Colin Campbell provide a legal costs update. After the rash of relief from sanctions c...
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Civil Costs Case Law Update – May 2023
1 June 2023
Ikin v Shawbrook Bank Ltd [2023] EWHC 1075 (Costs) Senior Costs Judge Gordon-Saker, 5 May 2023. In Detailed Assessment proceedings, 40% of the receiving parties’ assessed or agreed costs were disall...
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Costs Consultant, Colin Campbell, examines the recent changes to qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) regime. Featured in ‘Practical Law’.
1 June 2023
In the latest edition of Thomson Reuters Practical Law, Colin Campbell writes for the Dispute Resolution column, examining the qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) regime and the recent rule change...
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Civil Justice Council publish their final report (May 2023) following a “strategic and holistic” review of costs
31 May 2023
By Mark Brighton, Manchester office Technical Manager and Head of Advocacy The Civil Justice Council published their Final Report in May 2023 following a “strategic and holistic” review of costs. ...
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Breakdown of medical agency fees goes to appeal- concerns for access to justice are raised
31 May 2023
The recent County Court costs decision of Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust v Luke Hoskin (administrator of the estate of Pippa Hoskin deceased) 22 May 2023, heard on Appeal by HHJ Bird, has rais...
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Rochelle Dures (Hattons Solicitors) is the lucky winner of conference spa day giveaway
12 May 2023
Congratulations to Rochelle Dures, Head of Housing Disrepair at Hattons Solicitors in Merseyside, who was the lucky winner of the Legal Futures conference spa day prize draw. The spa day prize d...
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Rachel Pearce (Coodes Solicitors) is the lucky winner of a luxury spa day!
10 May 2023
Congratulations to Rachel Pearce from Coodes Solicitors who was the lucky winner of the recent Kain Knight spa day prize draw. The spa day prize was a real talking point at the 2023 AvMA Confere...
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Ikin v Shawbrook Bank Ltd [2023] EWHC 1075 (Costs)
9 May 2023
Applications in Detailed Assessment proceedings to disallow costs for misconduct under CPR 44.11 are not common. They usually require evidence and cross examination in order to establish whether condu...
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Civil Costs Case Law Update – April 2023
3 May 2023
K/S Mountain Invest v Ducat Maritime Ltd [2023] EWHC 939 (Comm) HHJ Keyser 24 March 2023. HHJ Keyser gave the defendant relief from sanctions under CPR 3.9 where no costs budget had been filed under C...
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Civil Costs Case Law Update – March 2023
13 April 2023
Warburton v Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset [2023] EWCA Civ 209 Moylan, Phillips, Males LJJ 2 Mar 2023. A claimant who had accepted an offer under CPR Part 36 to settle defamation proceedin...
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Civil Procedure Rules Committee Meeting (3rd March 2023) sheds light on the implementation of the new Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) regime
12 April 2023
The minutes from the Civil Procedure Rules Committee meeting on Friday 3 March 2023 were released on Tuesday 11 April 2023. Amongst other things, it sheds some further (but limited) light on the imple...
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O’Sullivan v Holmes & Hills LLP: Further success for Kain Knight in the continuing solicitor and client costs litigation.
10 March 2023
Costs litigation relating to Solicitor and Client Costs disputes remains a hotly discussed topic following the important implications of Belsner v CAM Legal Services Ltd [2022]. In this latest Appeal ...
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Devon & Somerset Law Society Contentious Business Sub Committee– 2nd March 2023.
3 March 2023
Kain Knight were delighted to sponsor the drinks and canapes for the Devon & Somerset Law Society Contentious Business Open Meeting and Networking evening held on 2nd March 2023. District Judge, R...
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Civil Costs Case Law Update – February 2023
28 February 2023
Kenig v Thomson Snell and Passmore LLP [2023] EWHC 181 (SCCO) 1 Feb 2023. Master Brown distinguished the much criticised decision in Tim Martin Interiors Ltd v Akin Gump [2012] 3 Cos...
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Legal Futures – Housing Condition conference – 18th April, 2023, Manchester
27 February 2023
Kain Knight are proud to be the headline sponsor of the Legal Futures Housing Condition Conference 2023 on the 18th April. The condition of the nations rented and social housing was thrust into ...
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MOJ delays the introduction of Fixed Recoverable Costs in Housing Disrepair cases by two years
3 February 2023
The MOJ announced on 3rd February 2023 that it was delaying the introduction of Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) in Housing Disrepair cases. This announcement follows last year’s consultation by the Ci...
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