Fixed Recoverable Costs
Adam Grant: Costs Lawyer at KE Costs
We are on the verge of the biggest shake-up
of civil litigation costs since 2013. 107 pages
of additional rules will come into force which
will absolutely transform the landscape in
which parties recover their costs. These changes
are as profound as they are wide-ranging -
they do away with costs budgeting, the indemnity
principle and most detailed assessments,
and cover the vast majority of cases worth
up to £100,000. This is not an exercise in merely
tweaking the rules.
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William Ellerton: Partner at DAS Law
Many commentators hail this as the biggest
change for a decade. That might be an
understatement - for those litigators old enough
to remember, the date of 1 October 2023
may well become emblazoned on our minds
in the same way the 26 April 1999 is. Don't recall
that date? It was the introduction of the new
Civil Procedure Rules which hailed 'all change'
in the litigation world.
So what is in store at the start of October?
What will change?
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