Insights

5 September 2023

Judicial Review proceedings against the Lord Chancellor have been issued by APIL, challenging several aspects of the Fixed Recoverable Costs reforms that are due to be implemented on 1 October 2023. S...

16 August 2023

The long-awaited new Fixed Costs Rules (FCR) come into force on 1st October 2023, introducing an intermediate track for most civil cases valued between £25,000 and £100,000 with tariff-based costs t...

18 July 2023

It is trite law that where a between-the-parties costs order has been made, a receiving claimant is entitled to recover costs from a paying opponent  for attending an Inquest, where those costs h...

17 July 2023

Author: Nick McDonnell. The FRC reforms coming into force on 1 October 2023 currently captures all Clinical Negligence claims valued at £100,000 or less, where the date of incident occurs on or after...

10 July 2023

In this long-running solicitor costs dispute case Optimal claim limited T/A Optimal solicitors and Dariusz Glab, the Defendant challenged certain elements of the Bill prepared on behalf of Optimal who...

26 June 2023

Kain Knight’s Kristie Thomson considers whether a solicitor’s time costs for attending on case managers and deputies are claimable, in principle, at all as costs following the judgment in our case...

15 June 2023

“Almost 24 years ago, I secured a job as a “taxation clerk”.  At the time, I had little idea about what that meant and no idea where the path I had started on would lead me.  Given tha...

15 June 2023

By Benjamin Wilson, Senior Associate. It would not be too surprising if most professionals in the UK were still under the impression that Artificial Intelligence (AI) was something seen in the movies ...

1 June 2023

In the latest edition of Thomson Reuters Practical Law, Colin Campbell writes for the Dispute Resolution column, examining the qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) regime and the recent rule change...

31 May 2023

By Mark Brighton, Manchester office Technical Manager and Head of Advocacy The Civil Justice Council published their Final Report in May 2023 following a “strategic and holistic” review of costs. ...

31 May 2023

The recent County Court costs decision of Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust v Luke Hoskin (administrator of the estate of Pippa Hoskin deceased) 22 May 2023, heard on Appeal by HHJ Bird, has rais...

12 May 2023

Congratulations to Rochelle Dures, Head of Housing Disrepair at Hattons Solicitors in Merseyside, who was the lucky winner of the Legal Futures conference spa day prize draw.  The spa day prize d...

10 May 2023

Congratulations to Rachel Pearce from Coodes Solicitors who was the lucky winner of the recent Kain Knight spa day prize draw.  The spa day prize was a real talking point at the 2023 AvMA Confere...

9 May 2023

Applications in Detailed Assessment proceedings to disallow costs for misconduct under CPR 44.11 are not common. They usually require evidence and cross examination in order to establish whether condu...