
Professor Regan, of City Law School, also has some pertinent thoughts to share on the timing of the ‘pesky’ fixed costs Rules, coming into force on 1 October. As he notes, ‘One need not be Nostradamus to predict a flurry of issuing before the end of September’.
Regan also references a leading silk’s account of ‘having a fee reduced by a costs judge despite it being agreed with the fully informed consent of the client’. He asks: ‘What happened to freedom of contract?’