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...
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13 May 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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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8 May 2024
South Tees Development Corp v PD Teesport Ltd [2024] EWHC 842 (Ch) 27 March 2024. Rajah J dealt with the incidence of costs following a 6 week trial. The defendant was the successful party having esta...
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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 ...
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11 April 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 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...
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4 April 2024
King v DWF LLP [2024] EWHC 668 (Comm) Henshaw J- 2 February 2024. The court refused to carry out a summary assessment of the defendants’ costs (claimed in the sums of £1,553,689 and £2,745,673) re...
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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...
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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 ...
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5 March 2024
L v O [2024] EWFC 6 -Coob J- 26 January 2024. On an application for security for costs, Cobb J held that although the husband in 2023 had spent more time in London than elsewhere, on the facts, he was...
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4 March 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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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...
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9 February 2024
On 29th November 2023, the Court of Appeal (Carr LCJ, Vos MR, Birss LJ) handed down an important judgment in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416 about whether the co...
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6 February 2024
In the February edition of the Manchester Messenger, the monthly magazine of the Manchester Law Society, Colin Campbell and Nick McDonnell provide a legal costs update. The most important case this mo...
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5 February 2024
1 February 2024 saw the MOJ finally respond to its July 2023 Costs Consultation, as well as summarising other changes not addressed in the consultation…and it’s a bit underwhelming to be honest. T...
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5 February 2024
Lazarichev v Lyndov [2024] EWHC 8 (Ch) 9 January 2024 – HHJ Keyser KC. Security for costs was refused where the claimant, a Belarusian national, was living in Poland, a State bound by the Hague ...
Read more![Court of Appeal have handed down their judgment in Thomson Snell & Passmore v Kenig -[2024] EWCA Civ 15.](https://kain-knight.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/architecture-g9e391a237_1920.jpg)
19 January 2024
Court of Appeal have handed down their judgment in Thomson Snell & Passmore v Kenig -[2024] EWCA Civ 15....
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8 January 2024
Nick McDonnell, Director and Costs Lawyer with Kain Knight and FRCConnect discusses what is likely to be the first, of many, costs wars arising from the new fixed recoverable costs regime....
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8 January 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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3 January 2024
HRH PRINCESS DEEMA BINT SULTAN BIN ABDULAZIZ AL SAUD v Gibbs [2023] EWHC 3111 (Comm) – 5 December. Andrew Baker J. The claimant, being in breach of unless orders to pay the defendant £598,955....
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