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Warby: New defamation regime risks “front-loading of costs”
Thursday, 28 September 2017The new regime created by the Defamation Act 2013, and the prevalence of early judicial decisions, could lead to “front-loading of costs”, the judge in charge of the media and communications list has warned.
Tags: costs budgeting, costs management, defamation
Posted in Costs, News
Master calls on rules committee to solve riddle of the costs of budgeting
Wednesday, 16 August 2017A High Court Master has called on the Civil Procedure Rules Committee to resolve the “tension” between the need to “spell out in the eventual bill” the costs of costs budgeting and to include them in Precedent H. Master Victoria McCloud said the committee should consider amending the guidance to Precedent H.
Tags: costs budgeting, costs lawyers
Posted in Costs, News
Media litigators unhappy with procedure and costs budgeting
Monday, 3 July 2017Lawyers and other users of the new media and communications list are unhappy with how the Civil Procedure Rules apply to the field, and particularly costs budgeting, according to the outcome of a consultation launched by Mr Justice Warby.
Tags: costs budgeting, defamation
Posted in Latest news, News, Procedure
Research reveals overspend in 89% of cases with costs budgets
Friday, 10 June 2016Lawyers are overspending in 89% of High Court and county court cases where costs management orders are made, research has indicated. A survey by Just Costs solicitors found “a clear failure to comply with the Civil Procedure Rules”.
Tags: costs budgeting
Posted in Costs, News
High Court rejects Clifford’s attempt to slash costs through “inadequate” Calderbank offer
Monday, 21 March 2016The High Court has rejected jailed publicist Max Clifford’s attempt to limit its costs to only £5,000 in a privacy claim by making an “inadequate” Calderbank offer. Deputy Judge Spearman said an “appropriate part 36 offer” would have protected the defendant.
Tags: Calderbank offers, costs budgeting, part 36
Posted in Costs, News
Rule committee sets shorter deadlines for filing costs budgets
Wednesday, 9 December 2015Lawyers will be set much shorter deadlines to file their costs budgets under a draft rule agreed by the Civil Procedure Rule Committee. The committee reversed an earlier decision to scrap costs capping rules.
Tags: Civil Procedure Rule Committee, costs budgeting, medical negligence
Posted in News
High Court abandons cost budgeting for clinical negligence claims to clear backlog
Thursday, 2 July 2015Costs budgeting will not be applied to High Court clinical negligence cases listed for costs hearings between October 2015 and January 2016 in an attempt to clear the backlog, it has emerged.
Tags: clinical negligence, costs budgeting
Posted in Jackson reforms, News
Budget-busting solicitors ploughing ahead without court approval
Monday, 8 June 2015Commercial litigators are busting their budgets without seeking court approval to revise them upwards, new research has shown. Even though every solicitor surveyed monitored the costs they incurred, 69% said they had exceeded a budget at some point.
Tags: costs budgeting
Posted in Costs, News
MR questions Jackson’s call to give courts costs management ‘opt-out’
Thursday, 14 May 2015The Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson, yesterday expressed misgivings over a recommendation from Lord Justice Jackson that the court should not seek to manage costs “if it lacks resources to do so without causing significant delay and disruption to that or other cases”.
Tags: costs budgeting, costs management
Posted in Costs, Jackson reforms, News
Judge asks: Where are all the applications to vary budgets?
Tuesday, 12 May 2015A leading judge has expressed his “deep unease about the desert of applications” to vary costs budgets – with practitioners responding that they are positively avoiding doing so.
Tags: costs budgeting
Posted in Costs, News