Two events have generated joy in the civil litigation community this month, NLJ columnist Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School, writes this week
They are the consultation on guideline hourly rates, last revised ten years ago, and a Court of Appeal decision on damages-based agreements (DBAs).
Prof Regan, who acted as an adviser on Lord Justice Jackson’s civil litigation reforms, which included allowing DBAs, shares his views on both costs-related developments. He writes that the Ministry of Justice failed to adhere to Jackson LJ’s recommendations, and the resulting regulations ‘were a mess’.
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