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29 November 2018 / Clare Arthurs , Richard Marshall
Issue: 7819 / Categories: Features , Costs
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A practical alphabet

Clare Arthurs & Richard Marshall share an (almost) A to Z of life in the costs lane

Agreement

Agreeing budgets with the other side could be the best and most cost-effective option; likewise agreeing costs at the end of a matter.

Bullock order

Where one defendant succeeds and another loses, the court can order the claimant to pay the successful party’s costs, but allow them to recover these costs against the unsuccessful party.

Costs lawyers

Experts in the knotty area of costs, able to advise on everything from budgeting through to the minutiae of costs case law.

Detailed assessment

Where costs are not agreed between the parties, the court will go through the costs incurred with a fine tooth comb.

Electronic bill of costs

Precedent S is now a requirement in most multitrack matters for work undertaken after 6 April 2018.

Fixed recoverable costs

The new norm in personal injury claims, will fixed costs be extended to commercial claims as Jackson LJ suggested?

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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