Ensure you are Qualified to Comment on the Issues at Hand The matter of Robinson v Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust & Dr Mercier (County Court at Liverpool, 9 September 2021) concerned a dental negligence claim. Dr Chris Mercier was instructed...
In Crompton v Meadowcroft (Costs) – 2021 DDJ Ayers was asked to decide whether fixed costs would apply in a matter which had exited the portal but settled before it was allocated to the multi-track. This was an RTA claim which was submitted to the...
Success at Detailed Assessment does not automatically mean entitlement to all costs of the assessment itself. The Claimant’s bill of costs in Milbrooke Construction Ltd v Jones [2021] EWHC B20 (Costs) was reduced by such a significant level that...
Claimants unable to recover the costs of the counterclaim where they did not file a revised budget. In Bhat & Anor v Patel & Anor [2021] EWHC 2960 (Ch) (see judgment here ), Mrs Justice Fancourt found that where the claimants had not filed a...
Successful defendants deprived of 25% of their costs due to dishonesty.
Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust v AKC [2021] EWHC 2607 Mrs Justice Steyn DBE, siting with Master Brown, allowed an appeal to a decision of Master Nagalingam on the basis that the signatory on the bill certificate was not...
Raydens Ltd v Cole [2021] EWHC B14 (Costs) Background The claimant solicitors acted for the defendant in protracted matrimonial proceedings between November 2013 and September 2018. The defendant’s husband in the proceedings were ordered...
Appeal Process – Practice Note CPR 52 and practice direction 52A to 52E cover the appeal process in the civil division of the Court of Appeal, High Court, and County Court. The only exception is following a Detailed Assessment undertaken by...
Fundamental Dishonesty; Inconsistencies and Lack of Disclosure by the Claimant’s Solicitor is not Sufficient to Conclude that a Claimant is Fundamentally Dishonest
Reasonable and Proportionate Costs does not mean the lowest possible amount
