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Rule committee allays concern over unintended consequences of costs budgeting extension
Monday, 14 April 2014The Civil Procedure Rule Committee has reassured litigators that the new version of the costs management rule coming into force on 22 April will not accidentally catch Commercial Court and other Rolls Building cases being brought into the regime retrospectively.
Tags: budgeting, costs management
Posted in Costs, News
Busting the budget: applications to dis-apply the costs budgeting regime
Wednesday, 19 March 2014Lucy McCormick of Henderson Chambers discusses the as-yet little used discretion in the CPR to dis-apply costs budgeting, and explains how she was able to make a successful application in a case involving a litigant-in-person.
Tags: budgeting, costs management
Posted in Features, General, News
“Premature” bid for RBS case budget only penalised with 50% costs award
Tuesday, 18 March 2014The action group that brought a premature application for budgeting in the RBS rights issue litigation will only pay half of the costs of the hearing at this stage, because “the basic proposition that a budgeting exercise would be appropriate may yet be vindicated”.
Tags: budgeting, costs management
Posted in Costs, News
Jackson has done nothing to improve commercial litigation, say City solicitors
Tuesday, 11 March 2014Litigators from many of the City’s top firms have expressed deep concerns about the impact of the Jackson reforms, saying they have increased the cost of litigation without improving its efficiency.
Tags: budgeting, costs management, Jackson report
Posted in Jackson reforms, News
Judge overturns Mitchell sanction in case where both parties did not file budgets
Friday, 14 February 2014A circuit judge has overturned a ruling that both the claimant and defendant would be limited to recovering their court fees after both failed to submit budgets. HHJ Worster said that had he not found they were not required to file budgets, he would have granted relief from sanction.
Tags: budgeting, costs management
Posted in Costs, Jackson reforms, News
High Court judge expressly declines to approve "disproportionate" costs budgets
Friday, 4 October 2013A High Court judge has expressly declined to approve the costs budget of both sides of a construction dispute on the grounds that they are “disproportionate and unreasonable”. But Mr Justice Coulson said this does not mean the successful party will recover no costs at all.
Tags: budgeting, costs management
Posted in Costs, General, Jackson reforms, News
Master more than halves £1m budget
Thursday, 12 September 2013A High Court master last week more than halved a proposed budget in a quantum-only cerebral palsey case, it has emerged. Leading costs lawyer Matthew Harman said the master also refused to hear any argument on hourly rates.
Tags: budgeting, provisional assessment
Posted in Costs, News
Plebgate costs budgeting case leapfrogged to Court of Appeal
Monday, 2 September 2013The Court of Appeal is set to hear the landmark Plebgate costs management case, in which the budget of former cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell MP for suing The Sun for libel was restricted to just the court fee as a result of failures to comply with the new CPR.
Tags: budgeting, costs management
Posted in Costs, Jackson reforms, News
Tough enough? Failure to comply leaves ‘Plebgate’ MP with budget limited to court fees
Thursday, 8 August 2013The full harshness of the post-Jackson costs management regime has been exposed after a High Court master ruled that a claimant’s failure to meet the rules in a high-profile libel action means his budget is limited to the court fees and no more.
Tags: budgeting, costs management
Posted in Costs, Jackson reforms, News
City lawyers: no reason to remove Commercial Court budgeting exemption
Tuesday, 30 July 2013The Civil Procedure Rule Committee is wrong to consider introducing automatic costs budgeting to the Commercial Court so soon after implementation of the Jackson reforms, City litigators have said.
Tags: budgeting, costs management
Posted in Jackson reforms, News