Costs

Articles

7 Aug 2012

MoJ suggests abandoning gilts as means of setting discount rate

Review will look at methodology as well as rate after advice from Treasury

3 Aug 2012

CJC backs 25 per cent cap for contingency fees in personal injury cases

Napier wants disbursements and ATE premiums to be excluded

27 Jul 2012

Update | Judicial review

Gareth Mitchell looks at the likely impact of implementing the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2011 on the funding of judicial review claims

26 Jul 2012

Lord Chief Justice announces ten per cent increase in general damages from 1 April 2013

Increase will apply to personal injury cases, nuisance, defamation and 'all other torts which cause suffering, inconvenience or distress to individuals'

13 Jul 2012

Recognising chronic pain

Chronic pain conditions too often remain undiagnosed and wrongly pushed through the portal scheme, says Fiona Ashworth

12 Jul 2012

Workshop: Public law

Parties to judicial review proceedings should make clear their intention to settle at the 'earliest opportunity if they want to avoid adverse costs orders, says Sarah Sackman

11 Jul 2012

QOCS not available to claimants who fail to beat part 36 offers

Losing defendants face having to pay ten per cent of damages plus costs

6 Jul 2012

Equality of arms: the intended effect of the new rules on cost proportionality

The proposed new rules on costs recoverability ought to ensure defendants with deep pockets cannot manipulate the personal injury litigation market, or at least they should ?be applied to this effect, says Michael Williamson