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Kris Kilsby outlines why a Pt 36 offer is the best method of protection during costs assessment proceedings

Costs lawyers have spoken out against Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans for the Legal Aid Agency (LAA) to take over the assessment of civil legal aid bills

Nick Leigh reports on the occasional eyebrow-raising qualities of tax law

Denmark has been ordered to pay indemnity costs to more than 90 defendants after losing its claim for recovery of more than £1.5bn lost in an alleged dividend trading fraud.

Numerical nightmares & conjured-up counterclaims: Dominic Regan counts the costs of some headline headaches

Part 36 settlement offers: Helen Armstrong & William Rowell outline how to avoid the pitfalls

Do not be afraid to take a pragmatic, proportionate approach to injunction applications, says David Gray-Jones

HHJ Karen Walden-Smith examines the importance of restraint when raising allegations of fundamental dishonesty

A judge has criticised solicitors acting in a high-value banking case for not having promptly instructed costs lawyers to assess a $3.7m default costs certificate (DCC).

Costs lawyers have raised issues with the data used to inform the review of Guideline Hourly Rates (GHR), the guideline figures used by judges to calculate court costs

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Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers

Womble Bond Dickinson appoints Paula Myers to private capital team in Leeds

mfg Solicitors—five promotions

Law firm mfg Solicitors announces five promotions at Birmingham office

Brabners—six promotions

Brabners adds six to partnership in record year for partner promotions

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42BR Barristers—4 Brick Court merger completed

Family set expands with the formal integration of 4 Brick Court into 42BR Barristers

Sting operation on solicitor backfires

The Court of Appeal has issued a stern warning to lawyers engaging in the practice of ‘privilege hunting’—obtaining an opponent’s legally privileged information through dishonest means

CILEX ‘disappointed’ by LSB report on Mazur

Legal executives have given a lukewarm reception to the Legal Services Board’s (LSB’s) final report from its regulatory review into Mazur advice and guidance

Ruling clarifies main housing duty

A homeless single parent offered accommodation in Derby has lost her Supreme Court appeal against the London council making the offer

No shield for spies, says Supreme Court

The Kingdom of Bahrain does not enjoy sovereign immunity from allegations it used surveillance software to spy on dissidents in the UK, the Supreme Court has held

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Costs

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Womble Bond Dickinson—Paula Myers

mfg Solicitors—five promotions

Brabners—six promotions