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Jackson predictions

20 November 2009 / Dominic Regan
Issue: 7394 / Categories: Opinion , Costs
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Jackson LJ’s much–anticipated final report on costs will be seen by the public sometime in January next year. As I write this there are still key areas where Sir Rupert is considering his options.

Jackson LJ’s much–anticipated final report on costs will be seen by the public sometime in January next year. As I write this there are still key areas where Sir Rupert is considering his options.

As someone who has stalked the man from Manchester to London I am grateful for this opportunity to predict what he will propose. What follows is based upon reading every word of his preliminary report and, more particularly, listening to what was said at his roadshows.

Fixed costs

Fixed costs in a wide variety of fast-track cases is an absolute certainty. The senior judiciary are appalled at how expensive litigation has become, not that it was ever cheap. By imposing a set matrix of costs there will be certainty and with fast-track now taking cases worth up to £25,000 a vast number of actions will be caught.

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