Happy New Year!
We hope that you had a good Christmas break, and that 2019 is a prosperous and successful year for you and your organisation.
We have few seminars coming up …
On 21st March 2019, we are organising a Serious Injury Conference at…
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Costs paid by a third party - breach of the indemnity principle?
The case of HMRC -v- Gardiner and Others [2018] EWHC 1716 (QB) is a case concerning an alleged breach of the indemnity principle.
Background
The Respondents were amongst several tax…
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Qualified One-way Costs Shifting: 2 recent Court of Appeal decisions
1. Multi Defendant actions – when a Tomlin Order is not enough
The Court of Appeal found in the case of Cartwright v Venduct Engineering Ltd [2018] EWCA Civ 1654 that a successfu…
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Make sure your costs budgets, statements of costs and bills of costs are prepared correctly!
The Court of Appeal recently handed down Judgment (Gempride -v- Jagrit Bamrah and Lawlords of London Limited [2018]) in a case which involved alleged misconduct …
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Fixed Costs – Where are we?
On 15 February the issue of fixed costs developed following a consultation response by the Department of Health and Social Care.
The consultation response focused on fixed costs for clinical negligence cases w…
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