Insights

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...

21 July 2022

It was originally due to be heard on the 12th, 13th and 14th July but was adjourned due to Covid. Watch this space for details!...

11 July 2022

Kain Knight Costs Lawyers are acting for the Appellants in the Court of Appeal of: Belsner v CAM Legal Services Ltd. This case is being labelled by many as the ‘costs case of the decade’ as it may...

6 July 2022

Kain Knight Limited is delighted to be working with Ian Cohen, Director of The Cohen Consultancy who will be supporting the firm in the delivery of its ambitious growth plans. In his management consul...

6 July 2022

Due to an increasing workload and Kain Knight’s ambitious growth plans, we’re looking to recruit two costs lawyers to join our exceptional team. Generous salary package available to the successful...

4 July 2022

Kain Knight are delighted to announce that from Monday 4th July 2022, the new address for our Manchester office of will be: Arkwright House, Parsonage Gardens, Manchester, M3 2LF. Our old office at Pe...

1 July 2022

Kain Knight – Newsletter – July 2022 We’re delighted to bring you our July 2022 newsletter. Just like a summer holiday suitcase, it’s packed with the very latest in legal costs news and our th...