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Costs: Provisional assessment – capped or fixed costs?
Paul Jones investigates a recent Court of Appeal decision which reaffirms that the cap on costs of provisional assessment continues to apply even when the receiving party has beaten their own offer ‘Capped costs were not the same as fixed costs: they were merely assessed costs capped at a certain level and, therefore, there was …
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- Broadhurst & anor v Tan & anor [2016] EWCA Civ 94
- W Portsmouth and Company Ltd v Lowin [2017] EWCA Civ 2172