Hourly Rates – A Good Reason to Depart from Costs Budgets? – Probably not
RNB v London Borough of Newham [2017] EWHC B15 (Costs) The relationship between an approved or agreed costs budget and a detailed assessment is one which has caused great difficulty in the near four and a half years since costs budgeting was introduced. Certainty regarding this ‘difficult’ relationship, appeared to come from the Court of Appeal…