Costs

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Costs: contentious or non-contentious business?

Nick McDonnell reviews the latest case law on costs

Belsner judgment: costs ruling ‘a victory for legal profession’

The Legal Ombudsman scheme was suggested as a much cheaper and more effective method of querying solicitors' bills in future

Interim ruling blow for Rebecca Vardy in Wagatha Christie case

Vardy has been ordered to pay costs on an indemnity basis

Kain Knight act for CAM Legal Services Ltd in ‘costs case of the decade’

Matters under review of 'very great significance… to the development of the civil justice system'

Challenge housing disrepair claims 

Ivan Goodsell looks at housing disrepair claims and why they are rising

How transaction management tech can make deals less hostile

If your firm is still managing transactions with a word processing tool, it's time you considered a 21st century solution, argues Jack Shepherd

Beware HRA discretion?: Rafiq v Thurrock Borough Council [2022] EWHC 584 (QB)

Emelia Bezant-Gahan and Tom Lambourne examine the dangers of relying on the court's discretion to extend limitation under s7(5) of the Human Rights Act 1998

Court of Appeal decision specifies what information is required in bills of costs

All firms should consider whether they include the requisite information in bills of costs