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The Legal Costs Blog
http://www.gwslaw.co.uk/blog/
News and comment on English legal costs law. Written for defendants, costs draftsmen and other costs professionals by defendant costs specialists Gibbs Wyatt Stone.
- Added on: Feb 5th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Simon Gibbs
- Listed in: Law & Legal
- Tags: legal costs legal fees costs draftsman costs draftsmen costs negotiators
Recent Posts
Lawyers growing rich on NHS negligence
The lobbying in advance of Lord Justice Jackson's final report on his Review of Civil Litigation Costs continued to the last moment with The Times (see link) reporting on excessive legal costs in clinical negligence matters. No doubt all true, ...
Happy Christmas
The Legal Costs Blog wishes readers a Happy Christmas and Defendants a prosperous New Year.Click image to enlarge:www.qccartoon.com...
Solicitors\' bills and VAT
Those involved in the world of legal costs will be dreading VAT reverting to 17.5% in 2010 and the difficulties this will cause in relation to bill drafting.On the subject of VAT, another video from Colin Berry, this time about solicitors' bills and ...
Costs Judge Vacancies
Anyone looking for a new job for next year might want to consider one of two posts being advertised for costs judges (see link) in the Senior Courts Costs Office (salary £102,921 plus £4,000 London allowance). You'll have to be quick though a...
Regulation 4(2)(c) lives on
Under the old Conditional Fee Agreement Regulations 2000 a solicitor had a duty, before entering into a CFA, to inform the client “whether the legal representative considers that the client's risk of incurring liability for costs in respect of the ...
Raising Legal Fees
I wouldn't usually post something giving tips on how lawyers can increase the legal costs they can recover but I thought I would make an exception in this case.(If you receive the Legal Costs Blog via email you made need to adjust your security set...
