29 June 2022
On Friday 1st July, Nick will speak at the ACL Manchester Annual Costs Conference, a must-go to event for Qualified Cost’s Lawyers and trainees who want to keep up to day with the changing world of ...
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29 June 2022
Belsner v CAM Legal Services Ltd, is to be adjourned until the first available date after 1st October. It was due to be heard by the Court of Appeal on 12th July. Watch this space for more details! Si...
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28 June 2022
Kain Knight Costs Lawyers are acting for the Appellants in the Court of Appeal case Belsner v CAM Legal Services Ltd, a case being labelled by many as the ‘costs case of the decade’ as it may have...
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28 May 2022
1. The modern hourly rate was invented by a man called Reginald See Herber Smith, R, Law Office Organisation (1940) 26 ABA Journal 393. Also see Baker, R, Implementing Value Pricing (Chichester: John ...
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31 December 2021
Since our last update, lots of exciting things have happened here at Kain Knight. I’d once again like to thank our valued clients and business partners for their continued support during the pan...
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11 January 2020
An update from Matthew Kain: What’s been happening at Kain Knight and what to expect in 2020. Welcome to the New World! There have been many changes here at Kain Knight, and in the Costs world i...
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17 July 2019
Kain Knight Costs Lawyers, acting for ARAG PLC, have succeeded in the Court of Appeal following a judgment that provides eagerly awaited clarity and guidance on: (i) how lower Courts should approach t...
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12 June 2019
The number of cases at High Court level and above which are being handed down continue at a relentless pace. This update principally features judgments which have appeared in the Law Reports. As usual...
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11 January 2019
We are now in the tenth year since Sir Rupert Jackson completed his Final Report into the Costs of Civil Litigation. A cornerstone of the Report was his recommendation Mat the court should control how...
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24 October 2018
The long hot summer did not cause any downturn in the number of decisions about costs which have been given by High Court Judges and above. What is also notable, however, is that they have been ...
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25 July 2018
Those of us who remember the pre Civil Procedure Rules days will recall that if you won your case by even a tiny amount, costs would “follow the event”: that is to say, there would be no deduction...
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8 June 2018
It has been a sunny spring, yet it hardly seems any time since we opened our Costs Case Law Update with a reference to the “Beast from the East”. However, if the weather is a constant source of di...
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16 April 2018
The “Hot News” is that the Electronic Bill of Costs is now mandatory for use in all courts in England and Wales for work undertaken from 6 April 2018! Where work has straddled that date,...
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2 March 2018
Just when you thought winter was over, the “Beast from the East” has arrived, bringing with it Artic conditions and snow expected to bring the country to a grinding halt. Not so in the Law, howeve...
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9 February 2018
This update focuses on decisions handed down in the hectic weeks before the Christmas holiday began. 2017 has undoubtedly been a “best ever” year in terms of the number of costs appeals which have...
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8 February 2018
The scenario: the receiving party serves a bill for £75,000 and commences proceedings for detailed assessment under CPR 47. 6. In view of the sum involved, the bill is referred for&nbs...
Read more19 January 2018
Andrew Bennetts of our St Austell office received instructions from a paying party in relation to a Bill of Costs, which claimed a sum for costs exceeding £50,000. The claim concerned a road traffic ...
Read more21 December 2017
Please click here to view Kain Knight’s most recent Newsletter, with articles covering the following subjects: The NEW BILL: are you ready to “Go Electric”? Proportionality C...
Read more15 December 2017
Readers of a certain age, such as the author, will remember football pool orders. A losing plaintiff (as a claimant then was), whose personal injury claim had been run on legal aid, was protected...
Read more28 November 2017
Breaking ! Both Claimants successful in the Court of Appeal in McMenemy v NHS (Claimant successfully defended the appeal) and Reynolds v NHS (Claimant’s appeal allowed). New test of proportionality ...
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Eager readers of our Costs Case Law Updates will have noticed that we skipped a month in September and that this update covers both that month and October. The reason for that lies in the continuing d...
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Section IIIA of CPR Part 45 contains the rules on fixed recoverable costs for low value personal injury claims that are started, but do not continue, under the RTA, or EL/PL pre-action protocols. The ...
Read more11 August 2017
Kain Knight’s regular monthly costs update on important costs cases focuses on those which are likely to have practical relevance for Practitioners. We have a “short form” which gives the headli...
Read more17 July 2017
Former Tory Chief Whip Andrew Mitchell MP’s foray into the hard fought privacy litigation known as “Plebgate” produced the most important costs case reported in 2013 (see&nbs...
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Celebrating 50 years as the UK’s Leading Costs Lawyers
