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A practical alphabet

29 November 2018 / Clare Arthurs , Richard Marshall
Issue: 7819 / Categories: Features , Costs
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Clare Arthurs & Richard Marshall share an (almost) A to Z of life in the costs lane

Agreement

Agreeing budgets with the other side could be the best and most cost-effective option; likewise agreeing costs at the end of a matter.

Bullock order

Where one defendant succeeds and another loses, the court can order the claimant to pay the successful party’s costs, but allow them to recover these costs against the unsuccessful party.

Costs lawyers

Experts in the knotty area of costs, able to advise on everything from budgeting through to the minutiae of costs case law.

Detailed assessment

Where costs are not agreed between the parties, the court will go through the costs incurred with a fine tooth comb.

Electronic bill of costs

Precedent S is now a requirement in most multitrack matters for work undertaken after 6 April 2018.

Fixed recoverable costs

The new norm in personal injury claims, will fixed costs be extended to commercial claims as Jackson LJ suggested?

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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
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
Commercial leasehold, the defence of insanity and ‘consent’ in the criminal law are among the next tranche of projects for the Law Commission
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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