09:00 - 09:30
Registration and Refreshments
Croissants, tea, coffee & biscuits
09:30 - 09.40
Welcome and Introduction
Colin Campbell, Joint Editor of the Costs Law Reports
09:40 - 10:05
Keynote Speech
The Right Honourable Sir Colin Birss, Lord Justice of Appeal
10:05 - 10:35
Professor Dominic Regan
A year of Part 36 Developments
10:35 - 11:05
James Laughland of Temple Garden Chambers
A Case Law and procedure rule update
11:05 - 11:30
Refreshments
Tea, coffee, biscuits and protein bars
11:30 - 12:00
Nicholas Bacon QC of 4 New Square
Damages Based Agreements
Will DBAs finally work after Lexlaw v Zuberi or have Cakebread v Fitzwilliam and Candey v Tonsgate Group now delivered a fatal blow?
12: 00 - 12:30
Alexander Hutton QC of Hailsham Chambers
Best Practice at Provisional and Detailed Assessment
12:30 - 13:15
Matthew Waszak and Richard Wilkinson of Temple Garden Chambers
Mediation in Costs
13:15 - 14:15
Lunch
Two course hot fork buffet lunch
14:15 - 14:45
Roger Mallalieu QC of 4 New Square
Solicitor/Client Litigation under the Solicitors Act 1974.
14:45 - 15:15
Master Victoria McCloud
Costs Budgeting
15:15 - 15:30
Dick and Sophie Warner of Class Legal
A demonstration of the Costs Law Reports
15:30 - 16:00
Master Jennifer James Costs Judge
Court of Protection Costs
16:00 - 16:30
Andrew Gordon-Saker, Senior Costs Judge
A Costs Crystal Ball Gaze
16:30 - 16:40
Questions and Chairman’s Closing Remarks
Colin Campbell
16:40
Post Conference Drinks Reception
Kindly sponsored by Temple Garden Chambers
Please note that the above agenda may be subject to change.
Registration and Refreshments
Croissants, tea, coffee & biscuits
09:30 - 09.40
Welcome and Introduction
Colin Campbell, Joint Editor of the Costs Law Reports
09:40 - 10:05
Keynote Speech
The Right Honourable Sir Colin Birss, Lord Justice of Appeal
10:05 - 10:35
Professor Dominic Regan
A year of Part 36 Developments
- Appeal Court guidance on rewards
- The likely demise of the day 22 acceptance manoeuvre under CPR 36.13
- How high can I pitch my offer?
- The importance of ESSEX CC V UBB WASTE (ESSEX) [2020] Costs LR 1259
- Uplift decisions - getting the best out of the CPR 36.17(4) "special benefits"
- Providing for interest to accrue under Part 36.5(5). Update offers?
10:35 - 11:05
James Laughland of Temple Garden Chambers
A Case Law and procedure rule update
- Payments on account under CPR 44.2(8) - what should you ask for: what will you get?
- QOCS - setting off costs against costs - in Ho v Adeluken in the Supreme Court
- Oppressive behaviour and vulnerable parties under CPR PD 3E.13 and CPR 44.3(5)(d)
- Part 45 - West v Burton
- Security for Costs under CPR 25
- Third Party Costs orders – what is the prospect after Deepchand v Sooben?
- Wasted Costs - easy to recover?
11:05 - 11:30
Refreshments
Tea, coffee, biscuits and protein bars
11:30 - 12:00
Nicholas Bacon QC of 4 New Square
Damages Based Agreements
Will DBAs finally work after Lexlaw v Zuberi or have Cakebread v Fitzwilliam and Candey v Tonsgate Group now delivered a fatal blow?
12: 00 - 12:30
Alexander Hutton QC of Hailsham Chambers
Best Practice at Provisional and Detailed Assessment
- What do you need to commence proceedings for detailed assessment?
- Indemnity Principle challenges: who terminated the CFA and does it matter?
- Budgeted bills - a "tick through", or a recipe for "good reason to depart" challenges, upwards and downwards
- Electronic bills: electronic bundles, remote electronic assessments and hearings - how is it working?
- Who pays the costs of the assessment?
12:30 - 13:15
Matthew Waszak and Richard Wilkinson of Temple Garden Chambers
Mediation in Costs
- Taking the "Alternative" out of "Alternative Dispute Resolution" - per Vos MR
- 'We have concluded that ADR can be made compulsory...." per Asplin LJ - Civil Justice Report into Compulsory ADR - July 2021
- Demonstration of a Costs Mediation, eliminating the risk of unpredictable results under CPR 44.3(5) and of failing to beat a Part 36 offer
13:15 - 14:15
Lunch
Two course hot fork buffet lunch
14:15 - 14:45
Roger Mallalieu QC of 4 New Square
Solicitor/Client Litigation under the Solicitors Act 1974.
- "Informed Consent" under Belsner, but no "Informed consent" under SGL – “Checkmylegalfees” litigation update.
- Interim bills, interim "statute" bills and when is an interim bill a final bill after Carpmaels & Ransford LLP and Collyer Bristow LLP v Regen Lab SA?
- Notification of s.70 rights. What should the client be told?
- Under the one fifth rule, what is the "amount of the bill"
14:45 - 15:15
Master Victoria McCloud
Costs Budgeting
- Getting the budget right
- Variation under CPR 3.15A for "significant developments"
- Getting it wrong: how to avoid this and relief from sanctions
- Inter-relation between incurred and budgeted costs
- Value of judicial comments under CPR 3.17
15:15 - 15:30
Dick and Sophie Warner of Class Legal
A demonstration of the Costs Law Reports
15:30 - 16:00
Master Jennifer James Costs Judge
Court of Protection Costs
- Assessment of costs - court appointed solicitor acting for the protected party
- Best practice to obtain court approval – From QBD to SCCO
- Hourly rate increase after Re: PLK ?
- Unreasonable costs
- Expert’s report to support the bill
16:00 - 16:30
Andrew Gordon-Saker, Senior Costs Judge
A Costs Crystal Ball Gaze
- SCCO Practice after Covid-19
- Update of the Hourly Expense Rates Review
- CPR 45 -what is happening to Fixed Costs?
- News from the Front
16:30 - 16:40
Questions and Chairman’s Closing Remarks
Colin Campbell
16:40
Post Conference Drinks Reception
Kindly sponsored by Temple Garden Chambers
Please note that the above agenda may be subject to change.
