05 February 2021
The much-anticipated consultation on potential changes to Guideline Hourly Rates runs until the end of March 2021.
Writing in NLJ this week, in the first of a three-part series, Stewarts partner and chair of the Forum of Complex Injury Solicitors, Julian Chamberlayne casts a critical eye on the Civil Justice Council report, the circumstances surrounding it and its methodology.
He writes that the fact Grade D rates outside London 1 have risen only modestly ‘perhaps illustrates the suspicion that assessed rates are some way out of line with the real market rates that litigants pay’.
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