SCCO rules that Settlement for less than pleaded value and reduction to incurred hourly rates, no good reason to depart from Cost Management Order.

Cost News

Master Rowley, leading costs judge, has provided authority in the case of Jallow v Ministry of Defence [2018] EWHC B7 (Costs) regarding the ever popular issue of whether a reduction of the hourly rates in the bill of costs to the parts which represents the ‘incurred’ costs section of a costs budget, is a good enough…

Partial success, but for which party?

Cost News

The initial decision An action was brought by an estate claiming ownership of a property. The defendant sought to argue that she owned the property outright. The judge at first instance held that it was held as joint tenants, 50% each.  In the first instance the Judge awarded costs to the Defendant, ordering that the…