Costs

Articles

6 Aug 2014

Pressure cooker: turning down the heat post Jackson

Engagement with external advisers as early as possible is key where there is doubt as to the financial viability of remaining in claimant personal injury work, says David Johnstone

22 Jul 2014

Getting a handle on costs management

Time recording and budgeting may be onerous, but practitioners had better get used to it, says Jon Lord

15 Jul 2014

Civil litigation: take a more proportionate approach

Eleanor Kilner offers a post-mortem on the 'Mitchell 3' ruling, which should re-establish the meaning of CPR 3.9

7 Jul 2014

Disrepair, default judgments and debarring orders

Morayo Fagborun Bennett offers some advice for setting aside default judgments in the post-Mitchell world

7 Jul 2014

Surely you can't be serious

If the intention of cost budgeting is to bring down the cost of litigation, it is doomed to fail, says Richard Barr

3 Jul 2014

John's blog

Legal Services Board, Inns of Court and justice reform

1 Jul 2014

Fighting the war on costs

John Bramhall wonders whether, post-Jackson, and Mitchell, the litigation world has changed for the better

24 Jun 2014

Crossed wires: untangling applications for security for costs

The judgment in Re Fi Call shows that the courts are reluctant to grant security for costs to one party for fear of unfairly disadvantaging the other, says Nicole Finlayson