PROGRAMME
09.00 - 09.30
Registration
09.30 - 09.40
Welcome
Colin Campbell
09.40 - 10.05
Key Note Speaker
The Hon. Mrs Justice Hill DBE
10.05 - 10.35
Alexander Hutton KC, Hailsham Chambers
The Solicitors Act 1974
Why do Judges dislike it, why do competent solicitors run shy of detailed assessments and when will there be an Act of Parliament to change it?
10.35 - 11.05
Costs Judge James
Costs in the Court of Protection
The Supreme Court overruled the Court of Appeal in Hirachand: what are the implications, and where there are shortfall costs, how can a fair outcome be achieved for the solicitors and for the estate?
11.05 - 11.30
Refreshments
11.30 - 12.00
Shaman Kapoor of 39 Essex Chambers
Trends in Litigation Funding
Group Litigation: are the spoils of victory distributed fairly and should there be regulation?
12.00 -12.30
Professor Dominic Regan
Misconduct and other matters
Misconduct and costs, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Costs, medical agency fees and costs, low value clinical negligence claims and costs.
12.30 - 13.00
Matthew Waszak of 4 New Square Chambers
Part 36 and Calderbank offers
Part 36 offers - when to make them: 90% offers: non-monetary offers: does Part 36 trump CPR 47.20 at Detailed Assessment?
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.30
Roger Mallalieu KC of 4 New Square Chambers
Costs budgeting
Excessive and over ambitious budgets and how to avoid them. When is a significant development not sufficiently significant to require revision under CPR 3.15A?
14.30 - 15.00
Simon Teasdale of 4 New Square Chambers
Thorny issues at Detailed Assessment
Those ticklish problems including Fixed Costs and how to escape them, whether to mediate the costs and the consequences of an unreasonable refusal to do so.
15.00 - 15.10
Dick Warner
Class Legal/Publisher of the Costs Law Reports
15.10 – 15.25
Refreshments
15.25 - 15.55
Victoria McCloud, retired Master of the Kings Bench Division
AI in costs
Wherefore the legal profession if AI takes over bill drafting, Points of Dispute, Replies and Skeleton Arguments: Advocacy next?... or after advancing false authorities and fake citations, is AI worth the risk?
15.55 – 16.20
Nicholas Bacon KC of 4 New Square Chambers
What the Costs Working Groups are up to?
The Civil Justice Report and its recommendations, the progress of the Costs Working Groups and costs case law update.
16.20 - 16.45
Master Jason Rowley Senior Costs Judge
News from the Front: all change at the Senior Courts Costs Office? Simplifying the electronic bill
16:45
Closing Remarks
Drinks at the MCR, Lincoln’s Inn – Kindly sponsored by 4 New Square Chambers
Registration
09.30 - 09.40
Welcome
Colin Campbell
09.40 - 10.05
Key Note Speaker
The Hon. Mrs Justice Hill DBE
10.05 - 10.35
Alexander Hutton KC, Hailsham Chambers
The Solicitors Act 1974
Why do Judges dislike it, why do competent solicitors run shy of detailed assessments and when will there be an Act of Parliament to change it?
10.35 - 11.05
Costs Judge James
Costs in the Court of Protection
The Supreme Court overruled the Court of Appeal in Hirachand: what are the implications, and where there are shortfall costs, how can a fair outcome be achieved for the solicitors and for the estate?
11.05 - 11.30
Refreshments
11.30 - 12.00
Shaman Kapoor of 39 Essex Chambers
Trends in Litigation Funding
Group Litigation: are the spoils of victory distributed fairly and should there be regulation?
12.00 -12.30
Professor Dominic Regan
Misconduct and other matters
Misconduct and costs, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Costs, medical agency fees and costs, low value clinical negligence claims and costs.
12.30 - 13.00
Matthew Waszak of 4 New Square Chambers
Part 36 and Calderbank offers
Part 36 offers - when to make them: 90% offers: non-monetary offers: does Part 36 trump CPR 47.20 at Detailed Assessment?
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 - 14.30
Roger Mallalieu KC of 4 New Square Chambers
Costs budgeting
Excessive and over ambitious budgets and how to avoid them. When is a significant development not sufficiently significant to require revision under CPR 3.15A?
14.30 - 15.00
Simon Teasdale of 4 New Square Chambers
Thorny issues at Detailed Assessment
Those ticklish problems including Fixed Costs and how to escape them, whether to mediate the costs and the consequences of an unreasonable refusal to do so.
15.00 - 15.10
Dick Warner
Class Legal/Publisher of the Costs Law Reports
15.10 – 15.25
Refreshments
15.25 - 15.55
Victoria McCloud, retired Master of the Kings Bench Division
AI in costs
Wherefore the legal profession if AI takes over bill drafting, Points of Dispute, Replies and Skeleton Arguments: Advocacy next?... or after advancing false authorities and fake citations, is AI worth the risk?
15.55 – 16.20
Nicholas Bacon KC of 4 New Square Chambers
What the Costs Working Groups are up to?
The Civil Justice Report and its recommendations, the progress of the Costs Working Groups and costs case law update.
16.20 - 16.45
Master Jason Rowley Senior Costs Judge
News from the Front: all change at the Senior Courts Costs Office? Simplifying the electronic bill
16:45
Closing Remarks
Drinks at the MCR, Lincoln’s Inn – Kindly sponsored by 4 New Square Chambers
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