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Here we select and summarise key cases pertaining to Legal Costs which may prove to be a useful aid to negotiation. Please feel free to contact us to discuss any of the cases mentioned below in more detail and to see what impact they may have on you.
Case summaries are shown in order of hearing date.
2012
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Recoverable success fee for a non-freezing cold injury.
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Whether the successful party was entitled to 100% success fee or 12.5% success fee where Part 45 of the CPR applied.
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Late acceptance of a Part 36 offer
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Whether in care proceedings a local authority should be liable for an intervener’s costs in contesting allegations of fact reasonably made by the authority but not upheld by the Court.
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Reasonableness of use of London Solicitors, uplift and broad brush approach to calculations
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Whether the proportion of an ATE premium taken out during an appeal but relating the primary proceedings is recoverable under an order for costs in the appeal.
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Conduct on disclosure
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The appropriate orders for costs where appeals from the Upper Tribunal are disposed of by consent.
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Whether there was a good reason to depart from a Court approved budget under the Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme.
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Whether solicitors had wrongly terminated their retainer where payment was withheld.
