Costs – Page 18 – Law Journals

Costs: Costs consequences

Vanessa Mitchell and James Copson discuss the changes introduced by the costs provisions in the FPR 2010 ‘If one of the intentions of the new rules is to produce a simpler structure for the administration of family justice, then sadly the costs rules have been overlooked and remain fiendishly complicated.’To what extent can the family …

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Costs: Concluded at trial

Paul Jones discusses when a 100% success fee applies ‘If a case settled less than 14 days before the date fixed for commencement of the trial, a 50% success fee would apply, but if the trial actually commenced, a 100% success fee would apply.’ Fixed success fees in RTA claims, accidents at work and industrial …

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Costs: Model awards

Andrew Hogan considers whether we have reached the end of success fees ‘The hearing before the House of Lords took place prior to the quantification of the success fees, so argument took place without the hard figures to hand.’ On 18 January 2011, the Fourth Section of the European Court of Human Rights handed down …

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Costs: Recoverability

Paul Jones considers when predictable costs apply ‘If neither fixed predictable costs nor fixed small claims track costs applied, then the only remaining option was for reasonable costs on the standard basis to be payable.’ One of the central tenets of the proposed reforms to civil legal costs is that increased use of fixed costs …

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