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Costs: Costs management and detailed assessment
Paul Jones discusses the degree judges are bound by the approved costs budget ‘Budgets are intended to provide a form of control rather than a licence to conduct litigation in an unnecessarily expensive way.’ Costs budgets were a central pillar of Lord Justice Jackson’s civil litigation reforms with the stated intention that they would deliver …
Cases Referenced
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- Henry v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2012] EWHC 90218 (costs); [2013] EWCA Civ 19
- Merrix v Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust [2016] EWHC B28 (QB); [2017] EWHC 346 (QB)
- SARPD Oil International Ltd v Addax Energy SA [2015] EWHC 2426 (Comm); [2016] EWCA Civ 120
- Simpson v MGN [2015] EWHC 126
- Slick Seating Systems v Adams [2013] EWHC B8 (Mercantile)
- Troy Foods v Manton [2013] EWCA Civ 615