“The increasing cost of legal action and the curbing of public funding could threaten the quality of legal representation, in-coming Bar Council chair Desmond Browne QC has warned.”
The Lawyer, 8th December 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“Should the taxpayer foot the legal bills of defendants who are brought before courts and acquitted?”
The Times, 25th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“Where a party with limited means applied for a protective costs order to bring a matter of public importance before the court, and that party was represented by means of a conditional fee agreement, the agreed success fee was relevant to the amount of the cap on the costs order and consequently was to be disclosed to the court.”
The Times, 18th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Lawyers ran up legal bills worth £100,000 and spent more than nine days of court time settling a row over £265.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The fundamental review of costs of litigation in the civil courts set up under Lord Justice Jackson was described as the biggest thing since the Woolf report, at the Civil Justice Council’s (CJC) costs forum last month — which is appropriate, given that high costs are a particular failure of the former Lord Chief Justice’s reforms.”
The Times, 13th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“On an application for a protective costs order the principles set out in the authorities were to be applied and the procedure followed in a flexible way, taking into account the circumstances of the particular case. The costs in general should be relatively modest and were likely to be capped. In deciding the amount of any cap on liability the agreed success fee for a conditional fee agreement was relevant and as a result was to be disclosed to the court.”
WLR Daily, 10th November 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
WLR DAily, 7th November 2008
Source; www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
“Defendants convicted at the Crown Court may have to pay towards the cost of their defence under proposals announced today aimed at saving £50m from legal aid.”
The Independent, 6th November 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Those found guilty of criminal offences may have to pay towards the cost of their defence the government announced today as it published two consultation papers.”
Ministry of Justice, 6th November 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Chancery Division
“Documents created by one party and sent to another did not necessarily cease to be correspondence, to which the privacy provisions of article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights could apply, when they were received by the latter.”
The Times, 6th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“Lawyers are not popular and never less so than when they demand their fees. But to be really despised, we must fight and win a “no win, no fee” case and then have the temerity to request payment of our fees with 100 per cent uplift.”
The Times, 6th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The slow squeezing of life out of the legal aid system over the past decade and the impact it has had on money available to fund group claims led to multiparty specialists concluding that — with only rare exceptions — such claims were doomed.”
The Times, 6th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A senior judge has been appointed to conduct a root and branch review of civil litigation costs prompted by fears that they are spiralling out of control.”
The Times, 4th November 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“The Master of the Rolls has appointed Lord Justice Jackson to lead a fundamental review into the costs of civil litigation.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 3rd November 2008
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“England’s senior civil judge has commissioned a one-year ‘fundamental’ review of legal costs, with the aim of improving access to justice.”
Daily Telegraph, 3rd November 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Significant progress is being made towards a new scheme of graduated fees for lawyers in very high cost criminal (VHCC) cases, Justice Secretary Jack Straw said today.”
Ministry of Justice, 24th October 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
“The Criminal Procedure Rule Committee is seeking views on a proposal to consolidate and revise the rules about costs.”
Ministry of Justice, 22nd October 2008
Source: www.justice.gov.uk
Krysia Maritime Inc v Intership Ltd
Queen’s Bench Division
“There was no rule in the Admiralty Court that, where there was no counterclaim, a claimant found partially at fault should recover only a proportion of its costs according to the percentage of liability of the defendant.”
The Times, 20th October 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“A judge has hit out at the participants involved in a four-year dispute over the construction of Wembley Stadium after they racked up £22m in costs, including £1m on photocopying.”
The Lawyer, 6th October 2008
Source: www.thelawyer.com
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