James v James & ors [2018] EWHC 242 (Ch)

Costs: What’s interesting about Part 36 offers?

Paul Jones highlights the importance of compliance with the precise wording of Part 36 for an offer to be valid ‘The offer in this case was expressly exclusive of interest and so did not comply with CPR 36.5(4), was not a valid Part 36 offer and, therefore, did not engage the enhanced costs provisions of …

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Case report: Ho v Adelekun [2019] EWCA Civ 1988

Contracting out of fixed costs; Part 36 offers; RTA Protocol ‘This decision provides welcome clarity as to the limited circumstances in which fixed costs will be disapplied by implication.’ This case concerned the application of the fixed costs regime for ex-Protocol cases at sIIIA of CPR Part 45, following acceptance of an ostensible Part 36 …

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Part 36: An offer you can’t refuse

James Marwick and Marcus Coates-Walker provide an invaluable summary of the latest decisions in the ever-changing arena of Part 36 offers ‘Hislop, it is submitted, is yet another instance of the court having to construct a Part of the CPR which was simply not drafted with fixed costs in mind and where the poor drafting …

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