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10 June 2024

In Bendriss v Nicholson Jones Sutton Solicitors Ltd [2024] EWHC 1100 (SCCO), Kain Knight Costs Lawyer, Mark Brighton, acted for the successful Defendant in an interlocutory application (in Solicitors ...

7 June 2024

Francis examines whether the legal fees were proportionate to the amount of tax at stake, drawing on his experience in costs disputes with HMRC. Francis’ comments were featured in Busi...

4 June 2024

Leading UK Cost Lawyers, Kain Knight, have announced the appointment of Adrian Hawley who will join on August 1st to assist with the firm’s strategic growth plans. Adrian Hawley joins as a Client Re...

30 May 2024

Colin discusses the mechanism of Part 36 offers and their use in the Phone Hacking litigation to settle claims against the wishes of claimants.  Colin’s article was published in Solicitors ...

13 May 2024

In this article, Colin Campbell of Kain Knight discusses the High Court’s decision in Clark and others v Adams and another [2024] EWHC 62 (KB), where Soole J confirmed that qualified one-way cos...

13 May 2024

It’s guaranteed! Mandatory mediation in Civil Litigation is coming, whether you like it or not, before the warring parties can have their day in court. The evidence for this is both overt and covert...

13 May 2024

Group litigation in the UK refers to the procedure where multiple individuals with similar claims against the same Defendant (or group of Defendants) collectively pursue their action. There are signif...

13 May 2024

The introduction of the Intermediate Track and expansion of Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) seems to have sneaked up on some of us who rarely encountered fixed costs prior to October last year.  Th...

13 May 2024

In our previous Commercial Law Bulletin in December 2023, we provided an analysis of the groundbreaking judgment in R (PACCAR Inc and Others) v Competition Appeal Tribunal [2023] Costs LR 1193 (PACCAR...

25 April 2024

Colin explains how Part 36 offers are a critical part of the apparatus of civil litigation and how they work for both claimants and defendants. Colin’s article was published in The Times, 25 April ...

5 April 2024

Civil Procedure Rule Changes – 6 April 2024 The 6th April (along with the 1st October) has become one of the two main dates when updates to the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) are implemented, and 2...

18 March 2024

Practitioners involved in Clinical Negligence will be well aware of the various changes that have come into play over recent months as the Government reforms start to take shape. In this update we tal...

18 March 2024

Why are we talking about this now?  Certainly for as long as I’ve been working in the civil costs arena (almost 26 years !) and for many years before that, a legal representative has been able ...

13 February 2024

Benjamin is a Senior Associate at Kain Knight and regularly prepares detailed and complex advice, Bills of Costs, Points of Reply/Disputes, various costs pleadings and Costs Budgets, as well as advisi...