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Court Fee Remission: Gibbs v King’s College NHS    Court Fees and Court Fee Remission Court fees act as an acid test of the seriousness in bringing a claim, and also provide funding for the legal system. Thus, in personal injury and other types of court or...

Contesting an ATE Premium: Case Study    Introduction After the Event insurance premiums are often payable by clients in civil litigation. This insurance covers the risk against adverse costs/unrecoverable disbursements, if the case is lost, and frequently...

Application to Strike Out Claim: Case Study    Introduction ARC Costs were approached by a Litigant in Person, representing a business, who had made an application to strike out claim brought against them and three other Defendants for trespass. The...

CPR 3.17: Discovery Land Company v Axis Specialty Europe SE In discussing the control of costs expenditure, it is almost trite to cite paragraph 13 of Kazakhstan Kagazy plc v Zhunus [2015] EWHC 404 (Comm), ‘...What is reasonable and proportionate in that context must...

Milbrooke Construction Ltd v Jones - Recovery of Costs of Detailed Assessment How the Dominos fall: the Question of Whether a Large Reduction to a Bill Necessitates a Large Reduction to the Costs of Assessment In Milbrooke Construction Ltd v Jones [2021] EWHC B20...

Increase in Court Fees for the First Time in Five Years Following a public consultation on ‘increasing selected Court fees and help with fees income thresholds by inflation’, the Court Fees Order statutory instrument will come into force on 30 September 2021....