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Application to Strike Out Claim: Case Study    Introduction ARC Costs were approached by a Litigant in Person, representing a business, who had made an application to strike out claim brought against them and three other Defendants for trespass. The...

CPR 3.17: Discovery Land Company v Axis Specialty Europe SE In discussing the control of costs expenditure, it is almost trite to cite paragraph 13 of Kazakhstan Kagazy plc v Zhunus [2015] EWHC 404 (Comm), ‘...What is reasonable and proportionate in that context must...

Milbrooke Construction Ltd v Jones - Recovery of Costs of Detailed Assessment How the Dominos fall: the Question of Whether a Large Reduction to a Bill Necessitates a Large Reduction to the Costs of Assessment In Milbrooke Construction Ltd v Jones [2021] EWHC B20...

Increase in Court Fees for the First Time in Five Years Following a public consultation on ‘increasing selected Court fees and help with fees income thresholds by inflation’, the Court Fees Order statutory instrument will come into force on 30 September 2021....

  QOCS Case Law – Enforcement of Adverse  Costs - Ho (Respondent) v Adelekun (Appellant) [2021] UKSC 43 What is QOCS? The costs protection afforded under Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (QOCS) applies for post April 2013 onwards cases which feature personal...

Guideline Hourly Rates 2023: New Rates from October 2021 2010 Guideline Hourly Rates The current Guideline Hourly Rates (GHR) were last set in 2010 and have been in force since then. It has often been argued in the interim years, via common law decisions, that these...