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Costs Budgeting: A new era in satellite litigation?
Andrew Hogan reviews the first Court of Appeal decision and if it will be possible to depart from an approved budget Because they are simply ‘taken into account’, if an arbitrary figure of costs claimed in the bill exceeds by 20% more than the estimate, on any assessment, they are often breached with impunity. On …
Cases Referenced
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- Costellow v Somerset County Council [1993] 1 All ER 952
- Finnegan v Parkside Health Authority [1997] EWCA Civ 2774
- Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 90218 (costs); [2013] EWCA Civ 19
- Savill v Southend Health Authority [1995] 1 WLR 1254