Which Approach? The Choice is yours.

In short you have a choice of three approaches, details of which are to be found below.

1. Negotiate and Settle Costs on a Schedule

This approach is taken by our ADR department where a schedule is quickly produced and an amicable settlement is achieved. By adopting this approach we secure a quick recovery of your costs and, whilst we charge on an hourly basis, this is capped at a fixed percentage of your recovered profit costs. Whilst this direction secures very favourable results, you will have to accept our fee as an effective overhead of your firm though we do try and secure a recovery in lieu of the same.

2. Negotiate and Settle Costs on an informal Bill of Costs

In this approach our litigation department will draw up a bill of costs but without the background information. We will then informally serve the same and thereby avoid the need for the defendant to draft points of dispute. By taking this approach our fees for drafting the bill are recovered in full and, in the event that we do not get a favourable response, we can commence a detailed assessment very quickly.

3. Negotiate and Settle Costs on the basis of a formal Bill of Costs

Here we draft and serve the bill of costs right at the beginning and continue along the litigation process until the costs are agreed/assessed. All our fees are recoverable though this may be seen, by some paying parties and the Court, as being an unreasonable and premature approach.

In effect options 2 and 3 are slower but offer a transparent zero cost service to you.

We are happy to utilise any of these routes and are happy to discuss the same based on the particular facts of any specific case – the choice is up to you.