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- Wrapping up two UK disclosure cases which caught the public eye
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Category Archives: Costs Management
ILTA Insight – litigation costs budgets
This is the third of a series of articles loosely based round the events in which I participated last week. The recurring threads are the wide range of subjects which get swept up under or alongside eDisclosure / eDiscovery, and … Continue reading
Posted in Costs, Costs Management, CPR
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Video marketing, fixed pricing of litigation services and Precedent H
You know how you sometimes start a conversation and quickly realise that you would have done well to keep your mouth shut? I did that last week. Fixed-price quotations for legal services and the defects of the CPR’s new budget … Continue reading
Posted in Costs, Costs Management, Court Rules, CPR
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Judicial re-examination of Jackson changes is unsurprising
Mr Justice Ramsey, the judge charged with overseeing the implementation of the civil procedure changes known collectively as “the Jackson reforms” has been out giving interviews in which he makes it clear that the reforms face a review. The Litigation … Continue reading
Posted in Civil justice, Costs Management, Court Rules, CPR, Jackson Reforms, Judges
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Costs management – relief from sanctions under CPR 3.9
One of the things I had hoped to achieve before setting off to ILTA was a post pulling together what one knows of reports of relief from sanctions cases under Civil Procedure Rule 3.9 specifically relating to costs management and … Continue reading
Case Management Conference Notice in the Birmingham Mercantile Court
Birmingham Mercantile Court has long been a leader in the development of guidance and procedures for the lawyers who appear there. This is largely thanks to the presence there of His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC who takes the view … Continue reading
Posted in Costs Management, Court Rules, CPR, Mercantile Courts
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New costs management litigation budget rules claim Plebgate victim
The former Overseas Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell is the latest victim of the strictly-applied new costs management rules. The solicitors acting for him in his libel case against NGN failed to file a budget as required by the Rules, and … Continue reading
Posted in Costs Management, Court Rules, CPR, Litigation
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The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 relating to disclosure and case management
This post has been amended to take account of the alterations announced AFTER the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules had been approved by Parliament. If that part of this post which relates to costs management has lost some clarity as a … Continue reading
Around the eDiscovery world in 35 days
You may have noticed a certain sporadic element in my written output recently, with patches of silence interspersed with blocks of posts. That pattern will continue through the rest of November, thanks to a conjunction of events in the UK … Continue reading
Costs management: Mr Justice Ramsay describes why it is necessary
I wrote recently about the coming regime of costs management in civil litigation – see Costs management moves closer in England and Wales. We now have a more authoritative reference document. Mr Justice Ramsay delivered a speech a few days … Continue reading
Early Data Assessment – a webinar with AccessData and Apersee
I took part in a webinar yesterday with Caitlin Murphy of AccessData, Tom Gelbmann and George Socha of Apersee, and Chad Papenfuss of the Federal Trade Commission. Our subject was Early Data Assessment and the title we gave to it … Continue reading
Costs Management moves closer in England and Wales
I have already drawn attention to an article by His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC in the New Law Journal called Costs management & docketed judges: are you ready for the big bang next year? which describes what is to be expected … Continue reading
Posted in Costs, Costs Management, CPR, Litigation costs
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