David Cooper

Costs lawyer

David Cooper is a council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers & costs lawyer at Ward Gethin Archer.

Costs lawyer

David Cooper is a council member of the Association of Costs Lawyers & costs lawyer at Ward Gethin Archer.

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In the light of a recent decision highlighting the difficulties of costs charging, David Cooper stresses the need for vigilance

Got a good reason or not? David Cooper advises not to overlook the indemnity principle

David Cooper breaks down the costs ruling in Monex

Costs lawyer David Cooper highlights recent examples of bad behaviour that proved expensive

David Cooper fires a warning shot: get the retainer right first time & watch out for the mule

David Cooper recounts an ideal costs scenario

Recent cases illustrate the importance of advising clients about the risk factors around costs recovery, as David Cooper explains

David Cooper examines a hot costs issue

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CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Blake Morgan managing partner appointed chair of CBI South-East Council

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Commercial dispute resolution team welcomes partner in Cambridge

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin

Firm strengthens international funds capability with senior hire

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NLJ this week: Motor finance faces £11bn reckoning

The proposed £11bn redress scheme following the Supreme Court’s motor finance rulings is analysed in this week’s NLJ by Fred Philpott of Gough Square Chambers

NLJ this week: Gold on Awaab’s Law & digital divorce

In this week's issue, Stephen Gold, NLJ columnist and former district judge, surveys another eclectic fortnight in procedure. With humour and humanity, he reminds readers that beneath the procedural dust, the law still changes lives

NLJ this week: AI in the dock—courts need literacy, not fear

Generative AI isn’t the villain of the courtroom—it’s the misunderstanding of it that’s dangerous, argues Dr Alan Ma of Birmingham City University and the Birmingham Law Society in this week's NLJ

NLJ this week: Landlords lose their upward climb

James Naylor of Naylor Solicitors dissects the government’s plan to outlaw upward-only rent review (UORR) clauses in new commercial leases under Schedule 31 of the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, in this week's NLJ. The reform, he explains, marks a seismic shift in landlord-tenant power dynamics: rents will no longer rise inexorably, and tenants gain statutory caps and procedural rights

NLJ this week: Privy Council undresses the ‘shareholder rule’

Writing in NLJ this week, James Harrison and Jenna Coad of Penningtons Manches Cooper chart the Privy Council’s demolition of the long-standing ‘shareholder rule’ in Jardine Strategic v Oasis Investments

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David Cooper

MOVERS & SHAKERS

CBI South-East Council—Mike Wilson

Birketts—Phillippa O’Neill

Charles Russell Speechlys—Matthew Griffin