Patience, please...Judges are still summarily assessing costs in civil and family cases on the strength of interim hourly guideline rates which came into operation on 1 January 2009.
The Master of the Rolls decided to await the Jackson Report before deciding whether to change them. Now, the Advisory Committee on Civil Costs has recommended uprates and the Master of the Rolls has asked for additional information explaining the recommendation.
Two particular
Separate particulars of claim can be served without the court’s direction in the same set of proceedings in respect of different defendants against whom different causes of action are asserted. Warren J so ruled in Biddle & Company v Tetra Pak Ltd and others [2010] EWHC 54 (Ch), [2010] Lawtel 26 January 2010. This might, for example, overcome an inability to amend particulars of claim with a new cause of action outside the limitation period against one or more of a series of defendants to whom the first set of particulars had not been devoted.
COSTS ASSESSMENTS: PLENTY TO ARGUE
Claim which would almost certainly have been allocated to the small
