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- Hadley v Przybylo [2024] EWCA Civ 250 – Court of Appeal judgement handed down in much anticipated judgment on recoverability of costs on attending MDT meetings and liaising with case managers and financial & health & welfare deputies.
- The 163rd update to the CPR will apply from 6 April 2024. Various amendments to the extended fixed recoverable costs (FRC) regime are contained within the update. These come about further to the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) consultation process, the response to which was published last month
- Amended Court of Protection Practice Directions from 1 April 2024
- Legal aid: High Costs cases
- Rare Appeal of Approved Budget Provides Insight into Presenting Budgets at CCMC’s
- The New Guideline Hourly Rates from 1 January 2024
- Hourly Rates and Inquest costs – when it’s not all about the money
- Extension to the Fixed Recoverable Costs
- CE-File System and Document Upload Centre (DUC) within the Court of Protection
- Costs Budgeting – a CMO where the claim involves a minor and an interim payment on account of costs?
- Estimating your Future Annual Management Costs in the Court of Protection – a form of COP Budgeting?
- Costs in Small Claims – Unreasonable Conduct leads to an award far in excess of fixed costs Reed v Boswell [2022]
- Recovering Medical Agency Fees in FRC as a disbursement – Wilkinson-Mulvanny v UK Insurance Ltd [2023]
- Costs News and Updates
- Standard basis costs on a Portal Claim pre-allocation?
- COP-E Bill of Costs Summary Guidance
- Court of Protection – Progress following a number of recent Oral Review Hearings
- I am a Professional Deputy but just received costs to be paid by the Protected Party
- Pre-medical evidence Part 36 offer is still a good Part 36 offer – beware the consequences of non-acceptance regardless of when a Part 36 is made.
- Golf Tournament & Black-Tie Dinner
- Avoid unexpected cost reductions
- The Court of Protection – What you need to know
- You win and the prize is yours
- International Women’s Day
- Belsner v Cam – The beginning, the middle and…not quite the end
- Who Is Looking Out for The Lawyer?
- Court of Protection Update
- Ho -v- Adelekun
- The New Guideline Hourly Rates from 1 October 2021
- Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) to be extended
- News and Case Law Round up
- When is a Conditional Fee Agreement a Contentious Business Agreement? Acupay System LLC v. Stephenson Harwood LLP considered.
- Time Limits for Commencing Detailed Assessment – How strict are they?
- “Solicitors are officers of the court. They are expected to understand and to comply with the Civil Procedure Rules” – So what constitutes valid service?
- Cash Account Item or Disbursement under the Solicitors Act 1974?
- ACL Responds to LAA Consultation
- Litigants in Person – What, if any, entitlement to costs do they have?
- Navigating the Return to the Workplace – Podcast with LawCare
- E-Filing Within the Court of Protection – Webinar
- Recovery of Inquest Costs in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Actions
- Electronic Bundle Service C (A Child) [2021] EWFC 32
- Court of Protection User Group – Summary
- Varying Your Costs Budget After the Introduction of Precedent T – Master Kaye provides an intelligible judgment following Persimmon Homes Ltd & Anor v Osborne Clark & Anor [2021] EWHC 831 (Ch)
- Professional Deputies and their General Management costs
- Interim Payments: The best of both worlds
- COP Deputies – Beware if you have (or will) incur costs outside the scope of your deputyship orders (ACC & Ors)
- Part 36 additional benefits do not apply to detailed assessment proceedings in keeping with the overriding objective…
- So where did 2020 leave us – a round-up of just some of the pertinent costs updates to take from last year
- A Handy Summary of the Updated SCCO Guide…
- Court of Protection – Who’s protecting the Deputies?
- NG (By His Litigation Friend, the Official Solicitor) v Hertfordshire County Council & Ors [2021] EWCOP 2 (11 January 2021)
- Are you giving your keys away? – The reality of informal Costs Schedules
- Costs budgeting from the notice of hearing to the recovery of your approved (and unapproved) costs
- Part 36 Offers: failure to beat and the consequence of enhanced reliefs
- Further judgment now in the Business & Property Courts for an increased starting point on hourly rates
- Penntrust Ltd v West Berkshire District Council & Anor [2020] EWCOP 48
- Changes to the CPR (122nd update) & Impact on Costs Budgeting Process
- Things Are Looking Up In The COP
- Hourly Rates
- It’s All Change in the Courts – Virtual Hearings
- File Collection Service – COVID-19
- Electronic Filing and the Court of Protection
- STATEMENT: COVID-19
- Guideline Hourly Rates
- TUSON V MURPHY – TO PART 36 OR TO CALDERBANK – THAT IS THE QUESTION?
- CERTIFYING A BILL OF COSTS – A CAUTIONARY TALE – GEMPRIDE LTD V BAMRAH
- A ROUND UP OF MAY’S COSTS CASES
- HERBERT V HH LAW LIMITED AND THE CASE FOR PROVIDING A WELL-REASONED RISK ASSESSMENT
- HEADS, SAND, OSTRICHES AND THE NEW E-BILL
- HOURLY RATES IN BUDGETED COSTS: WHERE ARE WE AFTER RNB AND NASH?
- SPRINGER V UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST
- PROPORTIONALITY AND COURT OF PROTECTION COSTS – NO ESCAPE!
- CPR 3.14 – COURT FEES ONLY? SOME PRACTICAL TIPS (WE HOPE YOU DON’T HAVE TO USE!)
- CHALLENGING A SOLICITORS BILL – SWAIN V JC & A SOLICITORS