Insights

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

2 February 2023

Kain Knight are delighted to be announced as Diamond Sponsors of the Commercial Litigators Forum (CLF) for 2023.  The sponsorship will run from the 1st January – 31st January.  The CLF was...

1 February 2023

Kain Knight (City) are delighted to welcome Tom Spanyol as Senior Costs Lawyer.   Tom has been working in costs since 1999 and most of his career has been focused on servicing the cost-relat...

10 January 2023

In this issue of our newsletter: Changes to the Civil Procedure Rules: What to look out for in 2023? The Civil Procedure Rules (“CPR”) and the Practice Directions to them (“PD”) were implement...

28 December 2022

On 27th October, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision in Belsner v Cam Legal Services [2022] Costs LR 1569 in which Kain Knight acted for the successful appellant solicitors. Overall, the appe...

21 December 2022

Nick McDonnell is a Director and the Kain Knight Costs Lawyer on record for the Appellant, Cam Legal Services Ltd.  Kain Knight Costs Lawyers are acting for the Appellants in the Court of Appeal ...

19 December 2022

The Civil Procedure Rules (“CPR”) and the Practice Directions to them (“PD”) were implemented on 26th April 1998. They replaced the Rules of the Supreme Court and their purpose according to Lo...

18 November 2022

The Civil Justice Council’s 11th National Forum (Improving Access to Justice for All) took place on 18 November 2022. One of the most significant pieces of news to come out of that was Lord Bell...

17 November 2022

Nick McDonnell, Costs Lawyer and Director at Kain Knight tells Thomson Reuters’ Practical Law about the Court of Appeal’s judgments. In this video, he discusses the cases of Belsner and Ka...

15 November 2022

Richard Banks began his career with the firm on 3rd January 1985, when Kain Knight was known as MB Kain + Co. At that time, there were just 10 Costs Draftsman (as they were known then) in two offices,...

10 November 2022

Kain Knight deliver yet another blow to Checkmylegalfees in Brown v JMW Solicitors. In what is a sequel to Raubeheimer v Slater & Gordon heard earlier in the year, Costs Judge Rowley finds that a ...

8 November 2022

In his first interview about the case, Kain Knight Costs Lawyer and Director, Nick McDonnell, speaks with Lawshare’s Peter Finkill-Combs (JMW Solicitors) about the Court of Appeal judgment. He expla...

27 October 2022

Kain Knight Costs Lawyers, representing CAM Legal Services, has successfully defeated checkmylegalfees.com in the Court of Appeal in what many are calling the ‘costs case of the decade.’ In a comp...

23 September 2022

Article by Colin Campbell, Costs Consultant at Kain Knight. *J.P.I. Law 184…who asked that? The answer is Sir Rupert Jackson in his Review of Civil Litigation Costs: Final Report (”the Report�...

12 September 2022

Tabassum Hoque joined Kain Knight as a Costs Draftsperson in 2020. After graduating with a degree in Economics in 2006 Tabassum spent two and a half years working as a litigator at several leading law...

12 September 2022

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8 September 2022

Costs Lawyer, Nick McDonnell, Kain Knight, shares his thoughts on the government’s consultation that closes on 30th September 2022. The Government’s latest plan to implement Fixed Recoverable Cost...