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Gone are the days when a good Costs Draftsman could
sort out your costs problems after the event. By the time a Costs Draftsman
becomes involved in your case there may be fundamental issues that have not
been addressed and that may be terminal to your client's recovery of costs.
Costs issues need full consideration from the embryonic
stages of a case throughout the whole management of the case to the point
of settlement or Trial. Costs Draftsmen should be integral
to your business.
Since the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules in
1999 the legal profession has been plagued by organisations whose simple
aim was to reduce claims for costs, no matter how reasonable those claims
may have been.
Unfortunately experience shows that there remains
unwillingness in some areas to acknowledge when claims are reasonable and
deal with them appropriately.
It is for the above reasons that we like to work
hand in hand with all of our clients to ensure that:-
- you
are content in your funding arrangements;
- you
are claiming all that you are entitled to;
- you
can be confident in the claims you are presenting;
- you
are maintaining records that will stand up to the close scrutiny of
the Detailed Assessment Process;
- you
do not fall foul of the impact that Estimates of Costs can now have;
- you
do not hinder yourselves regarding disclosure of
documentation/information to paying parties;
- you
receive proper, reasonable remuneration for the work undertaken.
For receiving parties we provide:-
- Costs
Seminars for individual organisations at their request;
- Estimates
of Costs (Allocation & Listing stages);
- Statements
of Costs for Trial;
- Costs
assessment and reporting without negotiation;
- Costs
assessment and negotiation direct with the paying parties'
representatives;
- Bills
of Costs for Detailed Assessment;
- Replies
to Points of Dispute;
- Full
assistance with Assessment Directions;
- Advocacy
upon Detailed Assessment Hearings.
Do not let others reduce your reasonably and proportionately
incurred costs.
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