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02 May 2013 / HH Judge Simon Brown KC
Categories: Features , Costs , Budgeting
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Costs budgeting: Proportionality is trumps

HHJ Simon Brown’s exclusive NLJ online guide continues with advice on budgeting for multi-track cases

“The budgeting of multi-track litigation is the most important of costs reforms that lawyers should prepare for” advises Professor Dominic Regan, the leading expert in civil litigation (“Not the end of the story?”). So, how should we—judges and professional civil litigators—“prepare” now that the Jackson reforms are a reality? The short answer is CPD Training: Chapter 40 and Recommendations 89 and 90 of the Jackson Report (Review of Civil Litigation Costs: Final Report, December 2009).

Chapter 40 of the Jackson Report is currently being implemented—judges who sit in civil courts are being trained at the Judicial

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