Costs

Articles

SJ interview: Adrian Chopin

Adrian Chopin is co-founder and managing director of litigation funder Bench Walk Advisors. He tells David Vascott about the firm's funding model and how it's staying ahead of its rivals

Costs and conduct in financial remedy cases

Leora Taratula-Lyons examines recent case law on how costs are awarded in financial remedy proceedings following divorce

SJ Interview: Chris Benson

Chris Benson is managing partner of Leigh Day He talks to Solicitors Journal about building the firm, negative stories in the press and the firm's collective action against UK water companies.

Alternative dispute resolution in civil costs: will mandatory mediation be the way forward?

Colin Campbell, retired costs judge, assesses the benefits and drawbacks of the different approaches 

Belsner, costs and the Solicitors Act

Jack Ridgway considers the case of Belsner v CAM Legal Services Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1387

The cost of costs

Kris Kilsby considers changes to costs budgeting

ACL suggests revival of ‘remuneration certificate’ to challenge low-value bills following Belsner

The 1990s procedure was widely used before it was scrapped in 2009

Book review: ‘The Legal Extortion Racket’

Tony Guise provides a review of 'the autobiography of an idea'*