Costs Articles

We hope you find our Archive of Articles taken from our periodic newsletter and Hints & Tips service useful.

• Discounted CFA Success Fees (January 2012)
• Notice of Funding - Relief from Sanction (January 2012)
• Recent Costs Cases (December 2011)
• Legal Expenses Insurance (November 2011)
• Costs Updates (August 2011)
• Recovery of Interest on Costs (June 2011)
• Costs Updates (March 2011)
• VAT on Medical Reports (January 2011)
• Changes to VAT Rate (December 2010)
• Claims for Additional Liabilities (November 2010)
• Clients with Legal Expenses Insurance (October 2010)
• Failure to Serve Notice of Funding (September 2010)
• Costs in exaggerated or dishonest claims (August 2010)
• Disclosure of CFAs (May 2010)
• Commencement of Detailed Assessment Proceedings (April 2010)
• Guideline Hourly Rates (April 2010)
• Costs Orders (March 2010)
• Success Fees (March 2010)
• Guideline Hourly Rates (January 2010)
• Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer's Home (November 2009)
• Part 36 Offers (November 2009)
• Important Amendments to Practice Directions (October 2009)
• Costs on Discontinuance ( October 2009)
• Postponement Element of Success Fees (August 2009)
• Is it a Road Traffic Accident? (June 2009)
• ATE Insurance Premiums (June 2009)
• Cancellation Rights and CFAs (March 2009)
• Part 36 Offers - Success Fees (Jan 2009)
• VAT and new Guideline Hourly Rates (Jan 2009)
• LSC Enhancements for Clinical Negligence Matters (Nov 2008)
• Claiming Enhanced Hourly Rates in Complex Matters (Aug 2008)
• Pre-Issue Notice of Funding (April 2008)
• CFA - Increases in Hourly Rates (April 2008)
• CFA Lite (March 2008)
• 2008 Guideline Hourly Rates (Feb 2008)
• Discounted CFA's (Feb 2008)
• New Hourly Rates (Jan 2008)
• Filing Accurate Costs Estimates (Nov 2007)
• CFA Breaches (Nov 2007)
• Raising Conduct Issues on Assessment
• Solicitors Costs Information and Client Care Code
• Agassi Beaten on Costs Issue - Who is an Authorised Body Providing Legal Services?
• Civil Legal Aid Point of Principle - When High Court Rates are Appropriate
• Cost Capping Applications
• Proportionality - Cox & Carter v MGM Ltd, Fraser, Fraser Woodward Ltd and Elliott Press
• Interim Costs Orders - Days Health Care UK Ltd v Piah-siang Machinery Manufacturing Ltd
• Employers Liability Disease Claims - Success Fees
• Apportionment of Costs Between Issues - Fourie v Le Roux and Others
• Hourly Rates in CFAs
• Alleged Exaggeration of Claim - Jackson v MoD
• Backdating a CFA - John Holmes v Alfred McAlpine Homes (Yorkshire)
• Costs Capping - Knight v Beyond Properties PTY Ltd and Others
• Delays in Commencing Detailed Assessment Proceedings - Less and Others v Benedict
• More News on CFA Breaches
• Mixed News on Costs Estimates
• Garrett v Halton BC and Myatt v National Coal Board
• CFAs in Predictive Fee Cases - Nizami v Butt
• Notes Can Pay - Make Sure You Get Paid For The Work You Do
• Varying Terms of a CFA - Owen Oysten v Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
• Part 36 Offers - Farag v Metropolitan Police Commissioner
• Staged ATE Premiums - Rogers v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council
• RTA Success Fees
• Medical Agencies - Woollard v Fowler
• Costs Where There is a Claim and Counter-Claim