Category Archives: Costs Management

ILTA Insight – litigation costs budgets

Posted on November 20, 2014 by

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 →

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Video marketing, fixed pricing of litigation services and Precedent H

Posted on August 7, 2014 by

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 →

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Judicial re-examination of Jackson changes is unsurprising

Posted on September 30, 2013 by

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 →

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Costs management – relief from sanctions under CPR 3.9

Posted on August 15, 2013 by

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 →

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Case Management Conference Notice in the Birmingham Mercantile Court

Posted on August 13, 2013 by

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 →

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New costs management litigation budget rules claim Plebgate victim

Posted on August 9, 2013 by

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 →

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The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2013 relating to disclosure and case management

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

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 →

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Around the eDiscovery world in 35 days

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

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 →

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Costs management: Mr Justice Ramsay describes why it is necessary

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

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 →

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Early Data Assessment – a webinar with AccessData and Apersee

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

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 →

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Costs Management moves closer in England and Wales

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

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 →

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