3 February 2025
Author: Ben Chowdhury, Managing Associate and Costs Lawyer at Kain Knight Damages-Based Agreements (“DBAs”) were introduced in 2013 as an alternative funding arrangement for litigation, allowing s...
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3 February 2025
TRAPPIT S.A. v GBT TRAVEL SERVICES UK LIMITED [2024] EWHC 3285 (Ch) 18 December 2024. Where notice of discontinuance under CPR 38 and been served, the Chief Chancery Master upheld the default pos...
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27 January 2025
On Friday 24th January it was reported that the Judge has capped the legal costs in the High Court dispute between the publisher of the Daily Mail and the alleged phone hacking victims. Colin Campbell...
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7 January 2025
IPE Marble v Moran [2024] EWHC 2913 (KB- 15 November 2024. No jurisdiction reposed in the High Court to award a defendant his costs of defending the prosecution’s unsuccessful application for le...
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6 January 2025
With effect from 1 January 2025, Guideline Hourly Rates (“GHR”) have been increased by 3.65% under the Service Producer Price Index (“SPPI”), with the calculation having taken account of data ...
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3 January 2025
Here, in Kain Knight Costs Lawyers’ regular monthly legal costs update, we focus on those cases which we believe are likely to have a practical relevance for its members. We welcome feedback and if ...
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11 December 2024
2024 has been significant in the world of costs law, with the creation of no less than four Working Groups by the Civil Justice Council to work on so-called costs reforms. In this context, it is usefu...
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4 December 2024
Parsdome Holdings Ltd v Plastic Energy Global SL [2024] EWCA Civ 1293) – 29 October 2024. The Court of Appeal upheld the court below (see [2024] Costs LR 87) when ordering security for cost...
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2 December 2024
Here, in Kain Knight Costs Lawyers’ regular monthly legal costs update, we focus on those cases which we believe are likely to have a practical relevance for its members. We welcome feedback and if ...
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5 November 2024
Here, in Kain Knight Costs Lawyers’ regular monthly legal costs update, we focus on those cases which we believe are likely to have a practical relevance for its members. We welcome feedback and if ...
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4 November 2024
Elphike v Times Media Ltd [2024] EWHC 2595 (KB)- 14 October. To avoid the prospect of long, expensive detailed assessment proceedings with counsel and Costs Lawyers occupying perhaps several days, at ...
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23 October 2024
By Nick McDonnell The Case The Supreme Court today unanimously allowed the appeal of a solicitor’s former client, in Menzies v Oakwood Solicitors Ltd [2024] UKSC 34. The entire judgment concerns the...
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23 October 2024
As Costs Lawyers Kain Knight have a vast amount of experience of costs management hearings up and down the country, both in County Courts and the High Court, stretching back over many years to include...
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23 October 2024
The story so far. PACCAR (see R (PACCAR Inc and Others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal and Others [2023] Costs LR 1193) The world of the Competition Appeals Tribunal (“CAT”) moves in a way that no ...
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23 October 2024
By Benjamin Wilson, Senior Associate. Artificial intelligence (AI) has long been heralded as the game changing tool designed to aid modern life and, in recent times, has gained momentum as becoming th...
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23 October 2024
When asked, “How did you end up with a career in costs?” Ben smiles and replies: “Like most Costs Lawyers and Draftspersons, you kind of fall into it. Costs finds you – you don’t...
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18 October 2024
Following the final ruling of Master McCloud it has become clear that there will be no day in court for detailed assessments without the parties first having engaged in Alternative Dispute Resolu...
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9 October 2024
Here, in Kain Knight Costs Lawyers’ regular monthly legal costs update, we focus on those cases which we believe are likely to have a practical relevance for its members. We welcome feedback and if ...
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1 October 2024
Exactly one year after the implementation of the 1 October 2023 Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) regime, the 1 October 2024 will see the introduction of the Rules and Practice Directions that set ou...
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1 October 2024
Cancrie Investments Ltd v Haider [2024] EWHC 2302 (Comm) 9 September 2024. Following the dismissal of the defendant’s application for summary judgment striking out the claim for a worldwide freezing...
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19 September 2024
In this article Nick discusses whether implementing Fixed Recoverable Costs in housing disrepair claims would impede access to justice. Nick’s article was published in the Solicitors Journal 18th Se...
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17 September 2024
Back in the summer the Senior Court Costs Office issued a note for practitioners providing advice on speeding up the process of costs assessments in court of protection matters handled by the SCCO. Th...
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17 September 2024
Will it happen and, if so, when? It was thought that fixed recoverable costs (FRCs) in clinical negligence claims with a value of less than £25,000 would be introduced in October 2024. But, with the ...
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17 September 2024
Lower Damages Clinical Negligence Fixed Recoverable Costs. So the key question is, will the new Labour Government adopt the much delayed reforms and finally introduce a Fixed Recoverable Costs scheme ...
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Celebrating 50 years as the UK’s Leading Costs Lawyers
