Summary Assessment of Costs

ISBN-13: 9780199298211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 232 str.

Katharine Scott; Jeremy Morgan

Opis

This new portable and practical guide contains everything that practitioners and judges need to know to conduct a summary assessment of costs in the County Courts, the High Court, and the Court of Appeal. It includes expert commentary and analysis, key extracts from the relevant statutory material and the Civil Procedure Rules 1998, and checklists to assist with preparation. Areas covered include deciding the appropriate order to ask for, the nature of the retainer, funding issues, and what can actually be claimed as costs in litigation.

O autorze

Katharine Scott is a barrister at 39 Essex Street, specialising in costs law. She advises and represents claimants and defendants on a variety of costs issues, including the drafting of CFA and costs sharing agreements, the enforceability of CFAs and CCFAs, the recoverability of success fees and insurance premiums, and detailed assessments. She is instructed by the Legal Services Commission on various issues, and by applicant solicitors in their disputes with the Legal Services Commission. She also practices in the fields of professional negligence and public law including mental health and community care.