Costs: What’s interesting about Part 36 offers?

QM Legal Costs | Personal Injury Law Journal | February 2020 #182
Paul Jones highlights the importance of compliance with the precise wording of Part 36 for an offer to be valid ‘The offer in this case was expressly exclusive of interest and so did not comply with CPR 36.5(4), was not a valid Part 36 offer and, therefore, did not engage the enhanced costs provisions of …

Continue reading "Costs: What’s interesting about Part 36 offers?"

This post is only available to members.

Costs: Back to the future with CFAs

QM Legal Costs | Personal Injury Law Journal | July/August 2015 #137
Paul Jones considers the arguments concerning the recoverability of success fees using retrospective agreements ‘The recoverability of success fees made conditional fee agreements exponentially more attractive to claimants and their solicitors but, as a result of their growth, they became more and more objectionable to defendants.’Conditional fee agreements (CFAs) may very well go down in …

Continue reading "Costs: Back to the future with CFAs"

This post is only available to members.