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The Revised Costs-Only Procedure - Matthew Hoe, Jaggards & Taylor Rose Law

14/04/13. Lord Justice Jackson had no recommendations to make about the costs-only procedure in his Final Report. But on 1st April 2013, it changed anyway. Those changes may turn a simple procedure into a new costs battleground. The costs-only procedure is intended to provide a simple means to originate the court’s jurisdiction to assess costs in those cases where there are no other proceedings and all other issues have been resolved, and the parties just cannot reach an agreement on the amount of costs. It is invoked commonly by receiving parties; anecdotally in about 20% of all potential cases...

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