Costs management: Yirenkyi – providing much-needed certainty

Sam Hayman discusses the implications of the recent case of Yirenkyi and its effect on the costs management regime ‘Matters were not assisted by rounds of first instance conflicting decisions, and while this judgment does not extinguish all issues and ambiguity within the process it gives a robust framework to judges to operate within.’ Sir …
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Costs Budgets: The gift that keeps on giving

Paul Jones outlines the latest decision which concerns hourly rates ‘To depart from the approved budget, the court must be satisfied that there is a good reason and, in this case, the court found that there was a good reason.’ Of all the reforms implemented by Jackson LJ, costs budgets is the issue that continues …
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