With the Jackson reforms bringing fixed costs to RTA, EL & PL claims, a Commercial Court Judge stated that a tariff of recoverable costs would likely be introduced in the commercial arena. Mr Justice Flaux was addressing litigators at the Law Society’s commercial litigation conference when he said ‘My own view is that where we are heading…
The issue of the extreme cost incurred as a result of Clinical Negligence claims has made several news articles over recent months. A notable article published by the Guardian newspaper online (“NHS sounds compensation alarm after £120,000 lawyer bill for £5,000 claim”) claimed that a third of the £1.1bn paid out by the NHS in…
Damage based Agreements (DBAs), also known as Contingency Fee Agreements, were permitted to be used in contentious work from the 1 April 2013 following the recommendations made by Lord Justice Jackson. However, the lack of firms taking up the option was striking and the Master of the Rolls was asked to undertake a review of…
Who would have thought that one piece of paper would cost so much to a firm of Solicitors? For a long time people have assigned retainers, more specifically conditional fee agreements from one firm of Solicitors to another; however the recent case of Jones has created a storm amongst the already unclear issue of retainers. The case…
As you may be aware, there has been long standing concern with regard to the time taken to bring commercial matters to trial. As a result a pilot has been commenced in the Rolls Buildings Courts (the Patents Court and the Companies Court, the Commercial Court, the London Mercantile Court and the Technology and Construction…