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12 December 2013 / Jason Rowley
Issue: 7588 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Costs
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Grappling with the cost

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Lawyers must get hands-on with costs, says Jason Rowley

 

This article looks at the continued attempts by courts to grapple with the cost of litigation prospectively and not simply at the end of the case. If costs and case management by the courts works as intended, it will render detailed assessments simpler and rarer than they are now. If on the other hand, the new arrangements are too unwieldy, are there other options that might be considered in due course?

 

I’m a lawyer, get me out of here

There is something almost visceral about the dislike engendered in most lawyers when asked to provide an indication of their fees that is a fixed sum or may become so. Why is that? In everyday life lawyers, like everyone else, expect the goods and services they buy to be priced in a clear and calculable, if not fixed way. But when it comes to their own fees,

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