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NLJ this week: Silks, DJs & fixed costs

21 April 2023
Issue: 8021 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Career focus , Costs
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NLJ columnist Dominic Regan is on form in this week’s The Insider, with thoughts on District Judges, the cons as well as pros for the latest tranche of King’s Counsel, and more anecdotes on those who have found themselves in the right place at the right time.

Professor Regan, of City Law School, also has some pertinent thoughts to share on the timing of the ‘pesky’ fixed costs Rules, coming into force on 1 October. As he notes, ‘One need not be Nostradamus to predict a flurry of issuing before the end of September’.

Regan also references a leading silk’s account of ‘having a fee reduced by a costs judge despite it being agreed with the fully informed consent of the client’. He asks: ‘What happened to freedom of contract?’

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Issue: 8021 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Career focus , Costs
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