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Giles v Veolia part 2

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 1 month ago: Further to my earlier post regarding Giles v Veolia, Taylor Rose saw fit to appeal. The appeal was d … more →

Tags: Costs, BTE, Lei, ates

Change Management

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 2 months ago: Some call it J day, others call it April Fools Day. Either way 1st April is going to be the dawn of … more →

Tags: Costs, Lord Jackson

Everyone ready for the Jackson reforms?

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 3 months ago: I was talking to a solicitor on Friday and was more than a little surprised to find out he had not y … more →

Tags: Costs, Lord Jackson, Legal costs, costs & budgeting, detailed assessment, provisional assessment, jackson reforms, CPR

texas biennial

artseen wrote 4 months ago: Did you know that Texas has a Biennial?  We do, and they’re taking submissions now thru Februa … more →

Tags: Art Shows, artists, call for artists, CFA, Texas Biennial, TX-13, contemporary art in texas

CFAs in Media Cases: reasons to be cheerful? - Steven Heffer3 comments

INFORRM wrote 5 months ago: Is it possible that the government has at last taken on board the concerns expressed by the Law Soci … more →

Tags: Legal, media, Steven Heffer, LASPO

Four High Court Decisions: (1) how (not) to avoid personal liability; (2) LPA Receivership changes “client” for TUPE purposes; (3) out-bid Newco avoids allegations of hiving out business; and (4) discharged bankrupt refused release from family proceedings debt

insolvencyoracle wrote 5 months ago: I don’t think any of these judgments introduces anything new, but they might still hold a little int … more →

Tags: Case Law, Insolvency, bankruptcy, Liquidation, administration, LPA receivership, personal liability, tupe, transfer of service provision

Lean pickings from recent High Court decisions

insolvencyoracle wrote 7 months ago: My lack of blog postings has been bugging me over the past couple of weeks, but I regret that, despi … more →

Tags: Case Law, Insolvency, insolvency law, Fiduciary duties

After The Event Insurance Premiums Recoverability in the Portal system

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 12 months ago: When the RTA portal was designed and the rules written, the easiest thing ever would have been to st … more →

Tags: Costs, Detailed Assessments, costs recovery, ATE Insurance, RTA portal, DJ Smedley, Liverpool County Court

MPs Response

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 1 year ago: ‘Respiratory industrial disease is a terrible problem, and the government wants to see suffere … more →

Tags: Costs, Lord Jackson, Legal costs, Qualified One Way Costs Shifting, QOWCS, Mesothelioma, LJ Jackson, cfa reforms, legal aid

Counting Down to the CFA Exams

Nancy Weng wrote 1 year ago: Four Weeks to Go… By now you should have finished your first reading of the CFA curriculum. If you h … more →

Tags: Qualifications, CFA, CFA Institute, CFA Curriculum, Study Techniques, studying for the CFA

E-working2 comments

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 1 year ago: I was tempted to leave LASPO alone for a few days and digest the Law Gazette & New Law Journal   … more →

Tags: Costs, Lord Jackson, Qualified One Way Costs Shifting, costs lawyer, Cloud Computing, Rolls Building, QOCS

LASPO - Commons Disagreements, Reasons and Amendments

andrewmcaulay wrote 1 year ago: Please click on the following link to see the official disagreements and reasons of the House of Com … more →

Tags: jackson reforms, Jackson Review, clarion costs, andrew mcaulay, costs lawyer, Court of Protection costs, Legal costs, Contingency Fees, legal costs blog

Chicago: It's a Wonderful Town for Financial Markets Jobs

fredyager wrote 1 year ago: The job market for financial professionals is picking up in the Chicago area, according to recruiter … more →

Tags: Job Market, New York City, New York, Chicago, Prop trading, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Michael Page International, windy city, boutique firms

Surviving in practice

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 1 year ago: Looking through ‘The Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No.2) Order 2011′ The … more →

Tags: Costs, Costs Lawyers, conditional fee agreements, LASPO, public funding, The Community Legal Service (Funding) (Amendment No.2) , costs seminars, costs draftsmen

Is it the end for CFAs as we know them?1 comment

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 1 year ago: As the Legal Aid Sentencing & Punishment of Offenders bill aka LASPO makes its way through The H … more →

Tags: Costs, Lord Jackson, LASPO, alternative business structures, retrospective application, Disallowance of success fees, House of Lords

Use of CFA by wealthy party

andrewmcaulay wrote 1 year ago: The recent case of  Sandvik Intellectual Property AB v Kenmetal UK Ltd 2012 EWHC 245 (Pat) has re-co … more →

Tags: jackson reforms, CFA's, Litigation Funding, clarion costs, costs lawyer, law costs draftsman, Court of Protection costs, costs expert, legal costs blog

Where there's pleasure, there's pain

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 1 year ago: Hot on the heels of the Claimant friendly judgement of Simcoe v Jacuzzi, comes the murmurs that the … more →

Tags: Costs, Lord Jackson, simcoe v jacuzzi, David Cameron, Portal Fees, whiplash claims, increased costs, claims direct

Interest runs from the date of Judgement aka Simcoe v Jacuzzi5 comments

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 1 year ago: The decision in Simcoe v Jacuzzi UK Group PLC [2012] EWCA Civ 137 is now available. The outcome was … more →

Tags: Costs, Lord Jackson, Interest on costs, Incipitur rule, allocatur rule, simcoe v jacuzzi

Are retrospective success fees recoverable?

Carlisle Legal Costing wrote 1 year ago: This was the question dealt with in the case of J N Dairies Ltd v Johal Dairies Ltd & Anor  [201 … more →

Tags: Costs, Detailed Assessments, retrospective CFAs, retrospective success fees, johal


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