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22 Apr 2013
Parties to civil litigation must be able to properly justify the need to make any changes to an approved costs budget, a High Court judge has warned.
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17 Apr 2013
National courts must be sure that any legal costs to be paid by a member of the public who has lost an environmental challenge against a public body are not "objectively unreasonable", the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled....
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06 Mar 2013
Legal protections which allow those of limited financial means to bring legal challenges on environmental grounds in the Scottish courts are to be formalised in legislation.
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21 Feb 2013
High value claims that begin in the Technology and Construction Court (TCC), Mercantile Courts and Chancery Division will not now have the proposed new costs management regime imposed on them, court officials have confirmed.
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30 Jan 2013
The Court of Appeal has reiterated the importance of accurate budgeting once wide-ranging reforms to civil court costs and procedures come into force from April.
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24 Jan 2013
The publication of three draft statutory instruments (SIs) that will implement part of the 'Jackson' reforms to civil court costs and procedures shows that the Government remains intent on a 1 April start date, an expert has said.
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20 Dec 2012
Members of the public faced with the prospect of bringing a claim for defamation or breach of privacy against a large media organisation will in the future be protected against having to pay the other side's costs if the case is lost, the Government...
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17 Dec 2012
OPINION: A seemingly attractive plan to make judges responsible for predicting the cost of court action is not the best way to encourage the accurate prediction of costs, but it is better than nothing.
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13 Dec 2012
A judge has agreed to limit a Shetland Islands environmental group's liability for legal costs to £5,000 in its judicial review of the Scottish Government's decision to grant planning permission to a 103-turbine wind farm.
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03 Dec 2012
A code of conduct for third-party litigation funders is "working well" one year on from its adoption and there are no plans to replace it with a system of mandatory regulation, according to one of its authors.
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