Final week the Civil Justice Council (CJC) printed the Last Report in its Prices Overview, carried out by a working group led by Lord Justice Birss. Its suggestions are separate to, however bear in mind, the deliberate extension of fastened recoverable prices to instances valued at as much as £100,000 which is now attributable to are available from 1 October this yr.
Key suggestions embrace:
- a pilot of a “lighter contact” method to prices budgeting for instances within the Enterprise and Property Courts, and instances valued at as much as £1 million in different courts, although there is no such thing as a element as to what that lighter contact method would entail;
- creating a brand new band of guideline hourly charges for advanced, excessive worth, industrial work, and together with counsel’s charges throughout the guideline hourly charges regime; and
- potential new powers for the courts to make prices orders the place issues settle pre-issue however the events haven’t agreed prices.
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