Final week the Civil Justice Council (CJC) printed the Remaining Report in its Prices Assessment, performed by a working group led by Lord Justice Birss. Its suggestions are separate to, however consider, the deliberate extension of mounted recoverable prices to circumstances valued at as much as £100,000 which is now attributable to are available from 1 October this yr.
Key suggestions embody:
- a pilot of a “lighter contact” method to prices budgeting for circumstances within the Enterprise and Property Courts, and circumstances valued at as much as £1 million in different courts, although there isn’t any element as to what that lighter contact method would entail;
- creating a brand new band of guideline hourly charges for complicated, excessive worth, business work, and together with counsel’s charges inside 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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