header-logo header-logo

Home Login E-newsletter About us

NLJ this week: hikes in court fees

© Copyright LexisNexis 2025. All Rights Reserved.
16 April 2021
Issue: 7928 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR
printer mail-detail
45619
Costs warning for the non-negotiators

A case that sounded alarm bells on costs for non-negotiating parties attracts the attention of NLJ columnist Stephen Gold in this week’s Civil Way.

In the financial remedies case, LM v DM, a wife was held to have made no serious attempt to negotiate openly and reasonably, and was deprived of half of her costs as a result.  Gold predicts a tougher stance on costs in future from financial remedies courts judges where parties hold back on negotiating.

Gold also covers hikes in 133 court fees, tribunal rules, the family mediation voucher scheme and the Coronavirus ‘respite’ for companies and directors on wrongful trading legislation. For these, and other nuggets, read Gold here.

Issue: 7928 / Categories: Legal News , Procedure & practice , Civil way , CPR
printer mail-details
RELATED ARTICLES
 

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Read All
Sponsored by
DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Read All
NLJ this week: DNA evidence—justice on ice?
In this week's NLJ, Steven Ball of Red Lion Chambers unpacks how advances in forensic science finally unmasked Ryland Headley, jailed in 2025 for the 1967 rape and murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne. Preserved swabs and palm prints lay dormant for decades until DNA-17 profiling produced a billion-to-one match
NLJ this week: Fraud claims climb as courts brace for AI threats
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
NLJ this week: Pro bono power without the red tape
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
NLJ this week: Trans pool player loses discrimination fight
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
NLJ this week: Traders’ convictions quashed in Libor shock
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
Copyright © 2025 LexisNexis
back-to-top-scroll