Costs budgeting is designed to ensure proportionate costs are incurred by setting budgets at an early stage in the proceedings. Costs are proportionate if they bear a reasonable relationship to the sums in issue in the proceedings and the other
Costs of preparing costs budget
Practice Direction 3E – Costs Management, paragraph 7.2 states: “Save in exceptional circumstances the recoverable costs of initially completing Precedent H shall not exceed the higher of £1,000 or 1% of the total of the incurred costs (as agreed or
Defective costs budgets
The decision of Mr Justice Walker in Page v RGC Restaurants Ltd [2018] EWHC 2688 (QB) provides further important guidance on the costs budgeting process and is essential reading for those involved in costs budgeting. The underlying case was subject to costs
Late filing of costs budgets
In Azure East Midlands v Manchester Airport Group Property Developments Ltd [2014] EWHC 1644 (TCC), a pre-Denton decision, it was held that a delay of two days in filing costs budgets in the context of a time frame of seven days was
Costs budgets and detailed assessment
The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in the important case of Harrison v University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 792 concerning the correct approach to take to detailed assessment where there has been a costs management
Date to file costs budgets
When costs budgeting was first introduced there was a fair amount of uncertainty as to when the budgets should be filed and exchanged (a problem caused by the apparent conflict in wording between the rules and the contents of the
Defendants’ artificially low costs budgets
I previously commented on the Coulson J, in CIP Properties (AIPT) Ltd v Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd & Ors (Costs No. 2) [2015] EWHC 481 (TCC), as to the suggestion a defendant might try to submit a knowingly low costs budget: “In
Costs management hearings
The Association of Costs Lawyers’ submissions to the Civil Justice Council on the impact of the Jackson reforms included: “One court is dealing with case management on one day and then costs budgeting on a second day. This seems to
Revising costs budgets
Costs judge Master O’Hare writing in the New Law Journal on the subject of costs budgeting: “In costs estimates considered by the courts in earlier years it was common for a percentage to be added to cover for contingencies. In the new
Inadequate costs budgets
HH Judge Simon Brown QC writing in the New Law Journal on the perils of getting costs budgeting wrong: “There are now quite a few cases being reported of leading law firms making an expensive hash of electronic disclosure and paying for