[Re X & Y (bundles): Fam Div [Mr Justice Murtby): 22 August 2008.] Giving two examples of family cases where Practice Direction (Fam Div. Family Proceedings: Court Bundles) [2006] 1WLR 2843 had not been followed, the court commented on practitioners’ general failure to comply with the practice direction. In one case, the hearing bundle prepared [...]

Following an request by the Court of Appeal in 2007, Courts have begun to develop and codify their costs-capping jurisdiction.  Under rules proposed by the Civil Procedure Rule Committee issued last week, Courts are expected to implement such capping, particularly in personal injury and defamation cases.  The committee said that the approach to cost-capping should [...]

There has been significant changes to the Costs Assessment procedure by the LSC as contained in the newly revised Costs Assessment Guidance.  This is section H of Volume 1 of the LSC Manual.  The revised section appears to have only just been uploaded to the LSC website despite being dated October 2007.   Costs Assessment Guidance – [...]