HHJ Simon Brown’s exclusive NLJ online guide continues with the golden keys to successful case management
Signing off a budget with a statement of truth (PD3E2.2) is a big responsibility for the person in charge of the party’s case. He needs to have the mindset and discipline of a project management architect. He will need to enlist the help of a costs lawyer from the outset in the role a quantity surveyor fulfils in a building project. Certainly that is what Lord Justice Jackson had in mind when he wrote his seminal report. It accords with the concept of Legal Project Management of the costs lawyers in US and Australia where Liz Harris of Allocatur Consulting practises.
Let us now follow the 12 rules (see Pt 1 of this series and then fill in the 10 Phases on Form H on the computer going through the 8 stage Legal Project Management case planning process covered
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