By: 25 April 2024

Fixed recoverable costs for clinical negligence claims postponed again

Nick Delaney, director of business development at First4Lawyers.   The news that fixed recoverable costs for lower-value clinical negligence claims...

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By: 30 October 2023

Deputy head of civil justice defends new fixed recoverable costs system

At the 2023 Harbour Litigation Funding Annual Lecture, a robust defence of the new fixed recoverable costs regime took place...

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By: 12 August 2019

DWF automates fixed recoverable costs claims

Law firm DWF has developed an automated costs system using its EvoClaim software platform to process fixed recoverable costs claims....

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By: 11 December 2018

ARAG joins SCIL calls for fixed recoverable costs rethink

ARAG after-the-event account manager Lisa Abrahams was in Westminster recently, to attend an important Society of Clinical Injury Lawyers (SCIL)...

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By: 15 February 2018

Expert group to look at fixed recoverable costs for clinical negligence

The UK government is forming an expert group to work on introducing a new cap on the amount of costs...

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By: 13 December 2017

ACL members want fixed recoverable costs plan curbed

The UK government should curb Lord Rupert Justice Jackson’s recommendation to expand the use of fixed recoverable costs, limiting them...

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By: 20 May 2017

Lord Justice Jackson plays down possibility of fixed recoverable costs for clinical negligence cases over £25,000

Lord Justice Jackson has played down the possibility of placing clinical negligence cases over £25,000 in a fixed recoverable costs...

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By: 8 May 2017

Exclude complex claims from fixed recoverable costs in low value clinical negligence cases, says Law Society

The Law Society has said that complex claims should be excluded from plans to introduce fixed recoverable costs in low...

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