Costs
Keep informed and up to date with breaking news and key updates in the world of costs.
Costs: Clarifying the EL/PL Portal Exemption for "damages in relation to harm, abuse or neglect of or by children or vulnerable adults
The SCCO has recently provided some useful guidance on the application and interpretation of the exemption from the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury (Employers' Liability and Public…
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Make sure your Part 36 offers are valid in detailed assessment proceedings: Follow this guidance as set out by the Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal has confirmed that an offer which is made exclusive of interest cannot be a valid Part 36 offer: King v City of London Corporation [2019] EWCA Civ 2266. There have been a number of…
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QOCS and fundamental dishonesty: the implications of withholding disclosure in a credit hire claim
DWF and QBE have successfully obtained a finding of fundamental dishonesty against a claimant for failing to provide full financial disclosure in a credit hire claim, resulting in the claimant losing…
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Costs: Court of Appeal quashes latest attempt to escape fixed costs
Simon Fisher considers the outcome of the latest attempt by claimants to escape the fixed costs regime in Ho v Adelekun (2019)
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Costs: Court of Appeal guidance on QOCS in mixed claims
The Court of Appeal has recently addressed the issue of whether Qualified One-Way Costs shifting (QOCS) under CPR 44.13-44.16 could be disapplied for mixed claims, that is, claims for personal injury…
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Noise induced hearing loss: claimant's solicitors ordered to pay wasted costs following late discontinuance
Stephen Symington, Associate Solicitor in the DWF Occupational Health Team in Leeds, acted for the defendant, The Secretary of State for the Department of Transport, in an application to have the…
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Costs: Court of Appeal judgment on recoverability of disbursements in ex-portal claims (CPR r.45 Section IIIA)
Simon Fisher examines the Court of Appeal's finding in Aldred v Cham (2019), that counsel's advice fee in a child claim was not recoverable as a disbursement in addition to the fixed costs, and that…
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Payments on account of costs in respect of issues not yet determined
Steven Dawson and William MacKenzie consider the implications of the judgment in HI v Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust in which the court made an order for an interim payment on account of…
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Part 36 consequences for beating offer by small margin in costs assessment
In JLE v Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, on appeal, the court has determined that a Master in the Senior Courts Costs Office was wrong to not allow a claimant the 10%…
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Costs: Court of Appeal guidance on "new" proportionality test & recovery of ATE premiums
Practitioners have been waiting for Court of Appeal guidance on the "new" test of proportionality in the assessment of costs since it was introduced in April 2013 under LASPO. There was much…
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