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Budget Drafting and Budget Monitoring: Understanding the Distinction
Budget Drafting and Budget Monitoring: Understanding the DistinctionEffective cost management is fundamental to successful litigation. Two processes are central to this: cost budget drafting and budget monitoring. While they are closely linked, they perform different...
Class Actions and Group Litigation Costs: How Do Costs Lawyers Assist?
Class Actions and Group Litigation: How Do Costs Lawyers Assist?Class actions and group litigation, otherwise known as collective proceedings, are a legal process that enables multiple individuals with similar claims to pursue a case collectively against one or more...
Litigation Misconduct: Bill of Costs Reduced by 75% for CPR 44.11 Breaches
Litigation Misconduct: Bill of Costs Reduced by 75% for CPR 44.11 BreachesSummary - The work undertaken in preparing a Bill of Costs is a specialist task which should not be left to an individual lacking the relevant expertise, failing which allegations of misconduct...
Costs Budgets and Indemnity Costs: Xtellus Capital Partners Inc v DL Invest Group PM SA
Costs Budgets and Indemnity Costs: Xtellus Capital Partners Inc v DL Invest Group PM SASummary: The interaction between costs budgets and indemnity costs can be unclear in practice. Xtellus Capital Partners Inc v DL Invest Group PM SA [2025] Costs LR 1593 clarifies...
The Recoverability of Inter-Fee Earner Discussions
The Recoverability of Inter-Fee Earner Discussions Mazur & Anor v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP [2025] EWHC 2341 (KB) (16 September 2025)Summary: The decision in Mazur has had a wide-ranging impact on the legal landscape, and made it critical that a regulated...
Reasonable Use of Kings Counsel: Case Study
Reasonable Use of King's Council: Case StudySummary: Even in moderately valued matters, there can be reasonable use of King's Counsel if the case circumstances warrant it, and if the proportionality factors in CPR 44.3(5) and Juby and others v London Fire and Civil...