15 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 ...
Read more15 November 2017
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...
Read more19 October 2017
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...
Read more28 June 2017
Costs appeals : Four down, six to go : that is the Court of Appeal’s tally of costs appeals listed in 2017 and of these, Harrison v University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Tru...
Read more27 June 2017
Thank you to everyone who attended the Kain Knight Golf day and congratulations to all the winners. Please click here to see all team photos and prize giving....
Read more1 June 2017
A year ago, Bradley Meads (pictured), a Costs Lawyer and senior associate at Kain Knight, co-authored an article concerning the Precedent AA bill of costs, having acted in the first case involving it ...
Read more15 May 2017
Plevin v Paragon Finance: what the Supreme Court did (and did not) decide about conditional fee agreements (CFAs) | Practical Law Dispute Resolution blog The case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce is n...
Read more4 May 2017
In the case of Bates v Bourne (Liverpool County Court, Regional Costs Judge Baldwin, 27th February 2017) the issue was whether a Claimant is entitled to late settlement costs (£300) wh...
Read more2 May 2017
Independent firm of costs lawyers, Kain Knight, are pleased to announce their expansion beyond the South of England with the appointment of Nick McDonnell as a Director of Kain Knight (North & Mid...
Read more11 April 2017
LORD NEUBERGER: (with whom Lord Mance, Lord Sumption, Lord Hughes and Lord Hodge agree) 1. Each of these three appeals involves a challenge to an order for costs made by a High Court judge against a n...
Read more3 April 2017
The amendments to CPR 3 and PD3E are imminent – they come into effect on Thursday. In particular they address the treatment of incurred costs in budgets and to deal with the SARPD Oil International ...
Read more30 March 2017
Please join us for our general costs update, budgeting and funding seminar at The Devon Hotel, Exeter Bypass, Matford, Exeter, EX2 8XU on Tuesday 25th April 2017 from 15:...
Read more22 March 2017
As 2016 drew to a close, Modern Claims gathered a roundtable of experts from the claims sector to analyse how the market can survive and thrive in the year ahead, and the years to come. Liam Lamb...
Read more24 February 2017
Kain Knight are hosting a raffle for the second year in a row at this year’s London Legal Walk. There were some impressive prizes on offer last year and the raffle raised £558 for the London Legal ...
Read more22 February 2017
1. Introduction New rules have been introduced as a result of the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2017 which were made on the 3rd February 2017. Most of these will come into force on 6th April 2017....
Read more17 February 2017
Please click here to view our latest newsletter covering the following subjects: Provisional Assessment Crystal ball gazing for 2017 Conditional Free Agreements Fixed costs – up to £250,0...
Read more31 January 2017
Lord Justice JacksonReview of Fixed Recoverable Costs 30th January 2017 Members of the Review Committee, Kain Knight is the longest established firm of costs lawyers in the country, with offices in Bi...
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Celebrating 50 years as the UK’s Leading Costs Lawyers
