CPR 3 - The court's case management powers
Practice direction 3E - Costs Management
Changes to the statement of truth The statement of truth wording has been amended (CPR 22 PD 2.1) and this was implemented on Monday 6 April 2020, as follows: “I believe that the facts stated in this [name document being verified] are true. I unde…
The Precedent T - a new Costs Management Precedent, watch this space! The CPRC’s latest meeting minutes not only detail discussion surrounding proposals to revise CPR r3.15 and PD 3E but also refer to a new Excel format draft Precedent T for settin…
The offer in the precedent R does not become the benchmark below which the costs cannot be budgeted Guidance, which we have regularly shared, regarding the approach to the completion of the precedent R has been confirmed in the case of Gray v Commis…
Introduction Our next Costs and Litigation Funding seminar is booked for Thursday 28 November 2019 - please save the date and you will receive your invitation in due course. In this newsletter, we have some interesting articles by Sue Fox and Matth…
Introduction Thank you to everyone who attended our seminar on 16th May. The feedback has been very positive and we were kindly provided with ideas for new topics for our next seminar. Our next seminar is provisionally booked for 17th October 2019 -…
Upcoming seminars We hope that you have received the invitation to our Costs and Litigation Funding Masterclass which will take place at our offices on Thursday 16 May 2019. We still have places available, please email Laura Courbet if you wou…
Upcoming seminars We have a few seminars coming up … On 21st March 2019, we are hosting a Serious Injury conference at our offices in Leeds; more details can be found on the website. We still have places left, please email Laura Courbet y…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Clarion’s costs and litigation funding team is one of only two firms across the UK to have been ranked by Chambers & Partners as a Band 1 firm for legal costs services. Partner, Andrew McAulay, who heads the costs practice, has also been ranked …
