General Performance Checking Bills Fees Invoicing & Fee Payment Professional Indemnity Termination Third Parties Force Majeure Confidentiality Data Protection Rights Of Third Parties Law

GENERAL R Costings aim is to build up a long term relationship with you, so please do not hesitate to contact us with any queries regarding our terms of business.

PERFORMANCE R Costings will provide suitably qualified personnel to carry out the work and will carry out the work using reasonable skill and care and in accordance with accepted professional standards.
Free door to door file collection and return using our own in house couriers, otherwise DX.
Competitive turn a round of files.

CHECKING BILLS It is the Clients responsibility to check Bills of Costs before passing to a third party, including their Clients.

FEES Fees for drafting a formal Bill of Costs are normally 5.75% of the Profit Costs as drawn.
Consultancy rates are competitively charged in line with guideline rates for your locality commensurate to complexity generally varying between £100 - £150 per hour plus reasonable expenses. However, our aim is to remain flexible and provide competitive rates for our Clients.
Any legal aid work is based upon charges of 6.5% of profit costs as drawn.

INVOICING & PAYMENT OF FEES Invoices must be settled within 28 days of receipt of invoice, otherwise by agreement.
R Costings reserves the right to charge interest at 8% over base rate in the case of overdue accounts.
All fees shall include any applicable VAT.

PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY R Costings Maintains Professional Indemnity Insurance.
The liability of R Costings for any breach of this Agreement, or arising in any other way out of the subject-matter of this Agreement, will not extend to any incidental or consequential damages or losses or any loss of profits, loss of data, loss of contracts or opportunity.
In any event, the maximum liability of R Costings to the Client under or otherwise in connection with this Agreement or its subject-matter is equal to the total of the sums payable by the Client under this Agreement.
Nothing in this Agreement is intended to exclude or restrict any liability of R Costings in respect of death or personal injury caused by its negligence.

TERMINATION The Client may terminate instructions to us in writing at any time. Work completed up to the date of notice of termination will be invoiced for all works carried out.

THIRD PARTIES R Costings may be required to engage a third party on your behalf (eg Barrister). R Costings cannot accept any responsibility for any act or omission of a third party unless otherwise agreed.

FORCE MAJEURE If R Costings performance of the work is delayed or prevented by circumstances beyond its reasonable control, then R Costings will use all reasonable endeavours to resume performance as soon as possible, but will not be in breach of this Agreement because of any delay in performance.

CONFIDENTIALITY R Costings will keep information passed to us confidential and will not knowingly, nor intentionally disclose it to any third parties, unless authorised by the Client or as required by law.
R Costings will not breach this obligation to the extent that the Confidential Information which is disclosed is or becomes publicly known without the fault of the R Costings.
Files will be shredded after expiry of 6 years from archive.

DATA PROTECTION For the purposes of the Data Protection At 1988, R Costings confirms to all its Clients that any information retained by R Costings will neither knowingly, nor intentionally share or transfer any information to any other organisation or person.

RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES For the purpose of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, we agree that no term of this agreement with you is enforceable by a third party.

LAW A contract between R Costings and the Client will be governed under English Law.