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NLJ this week: Costs judges & the ‘dreadful’ drag of delays

18 October 2024
Issue: 8090 / Categories: Legal News , Costs , In Court , Litigation funding , Court of Protection
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Lies cost, as The insider, aka Professor Dominic Regan, reports in this week’s column

Regan, of City Law School, relays news of a rise in fundamental dishonesty pleadings, with devastating results for some less-than-truthful claimants.

Regan offers useful tips for readers on the latest literature to follow up on, including useful guidance from LeO, and a teaser for a future column!

He also discusses the important role of the senior costs judge—who is due to retire at the end of this month with his replacement still to be chosen—suggesting whoever does take over address the ‘dreadful’ delay in assessing bills of costs at the Court of Protection. Regan writes: ‘Apart from the frustration of slow payment for work done long ago, the delay can hinder the finalising of an estate where a protected party has died.’

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Hugh James—Phil Edwards

Serious injury teambolstered by high-profile partner hire

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Freeths—Melanie Stancliffe

Firm strengthens employment team with partner hire

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

DAC Beachcroft—Tim Barr

Lawyers’ liability practice strengthened with partner appointment in London

NEWS
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
Tech companies will be legally required to prevent material that encourages or assists serious self-harm appearing on their platforms, under Online Safety Act 2023 regulations due to come into force in the autumn
The Bar has a culture of ‘impunity’ and ‘collusive bystanding’ in which making a complaint is deemed career-ending due to a ‘cohort of untouchables’ at the top, Baroness Harriet Harman KC has found
Lawyers have broadly welcomed plans to electronically tag up to 22,000 more offenders, scrap most prison terms below a year and make prisoners ‘earn’ early release
David Lammy, Ellie Reeves and Baroness Levitt have taken up office at the Ministry of Justice, following the cabinet reshuffle
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