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Senior Costs Judge: bills must be split for work carried out before and after 1 April 2013

It is “convenient and necessary” for lawyers’ bills to be split into two parts to distinguish between work carried out before and after 1 April 2013 in any case involving proportionality, the senior costs judge has ruled. Master Gordon-Saker said this was because the old and new, post-Jackson proportionality tests were different.