Costs

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Costs budgeting can prove its worth

Sue Nash considers how solicitors can get the most out of initial costs and case management conferences

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

Getting a handle on costs management

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

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

Disrepair, default judgments and debarring orders

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

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

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Fighting the war on costs

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