Associated Newspapers Ltd v Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd (Cost Budgeting) [2022] EWHC 2767 (TCC) Avi Dolties Issue – Cost Budgeting Background –The claim relates to a construction dispute whereby the Claimant alleges various defects with the works and site of the plot. Damages are estimated to be worth as much as £10m. The matter proceeded…
Kathryn Regan A frequently occurring issue we find in respect of costs is to what extent a receiving party is entitled to recover specific items of costs from one paying party which relate, in part, to another party to the proceedings. This is a particular issue on cases involving claims and counterclaims, but also in…
Jack Andrew Ordinarily, the small claims track is seldom reported on from a costs perspective as, whilst it is not impossible to recover costs inter partes (CPR 27 provides for disbursements to be recovered), it is somewhat unusual to recover costs litigating the claim, unless evidence can be provided to show the opponent has ‘behaved…
Avi Dolties CXS v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2023] EWHC 14 (KB) Issue – The first issue was the Claimant’s application for a further interim payment on account of costs and the second issue was the Defendant’s application for a costs management order. Background – The claim relates to a clinical negligence matter…
Rebecca Mogford The current position for Claimant practitioners is that Defendants are not currently able to set off their costs against both the Claimant’s damages and costs. The decisions in Cartwright v Venduct Engineering Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 1654; [2018] 1 WLR 6137 and Ho v Adelekun [2021] UKSC 43; [2021] 1 WLR 5132 were…
Rebecca Mogford As many practitioners will be aware of, the assessment of Court of Protection bills has been somewhat of an issue in the last 12 months+. There have been significant delays in the processing side and the actual assessment of the bills. However, the Court have been pro-active in trying to keep everyone up…
Rebecca Mogford Menzies v Oakwood Solicitors Ltd [2022] EWHC 3199 (KB) Just when we thought we were done for the year (and what a year it has been for Solicitor own Client cases!) another case turns up. This case centred around an Appeal over the issue of whether a client was out of time to…
Rebecca Mogford The deductions of success fees from damages involving protected parties has always been a tricky subject. Since the LASPO changes were brought in in 2013, litigators have found themselves having various questions and concerns about deductions of success fees involving protected parties – with some eventually making the decision to forgo any potential…
Rebecca Mogford As many practitioners will be aware of, the assessment of Court of Protection bills has been somewhat of an issue in the last 12 months+. There have been significant delays in the processing side and the actual assessment of the bills. However, the Court have been pro-active in trying to keep everyone up…
Jack Andrew As of Friday 18th November 2022, a number of solicitors up and down the country will have taken a sharp intake of breath and rejoiced at the fact the extension to fixed costs, proposed for introduction in April 2023, has now been postponed until October 2023. However, for those that missed it, Lord…