Costs: Free time

Sarah Breckenridge analyses the current state of costs management ‘Costs management aims to control and therefore reduce the costs of litigation. But the act of producing, negotiating and allowing judicial scrutiny of budgets can itself be an expensive and time-consuming process.’In May 2015 at the annual Harbour Lecture, Jackson LJ ‘confronted’ costs management with a …
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Costs: Less pain more gain

Miranda Whiteley summarises recent guidance on costs from the Technology and Construction Court ‘Proportionality is not all about the relationship between the size of the claim and the claimant’s (or the total) costs bill.’ We have had to wait for nearly two years for some guidance from the courts on the new proportionality test for …
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