Concerning Medical Agencies and other news!
Medical and other expert agencies are now a fact of life for most law firms. In many ways they have removed from lawyers the burden of locating and instructing an expert. But they also raise ever more complex issues. This has been demonstrated in the recent case of Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust -v- Hoskin…
Fixed Recoverable Costs – the rules
There is really just one item news that people are talking about. This is that we have now, finally seen the draft rules relating to the extension of fixed recoverable costs (FRC) that are due to come into effect from 1st October 2023. In a note to the draft rules, the MOJ confirm the creation…
Fixed Recoverable Costs – delayed or finished
The main news of the month came as a bit of a surprise! In September 2021 the MOJ responded to the 2017 Jackson report on fixed recoverable costs (FRC). They announced that it was the government’s intention to roll out FRC across most areas of litigation in the fast track. Lord Wolfson, then a Justice…
Liverpool Law Society September update
We post a monthly costs update for Liverpool Law Society. This is the one for September 2022. In our last update, we mentioned the imminent extension of fixed recoverable costs to most civil proceedings. One of the problems with fixed cots is that they can become ‘stuck’ costs. This is the case being made in…
When is a Part 36 Offer not a Part 36 offer?
The recent case of Soares v Wilson has important implications in relation to the wording used about costs when finalising settlement. On the fact of it the agreement was straightforward. It was a Personal Injury claim in which proceedings were continuing and where liability and quantum were in issue. The Defendants offered £9k in settlement…