Costs

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Members of The Costs team appear regularly appear before the SCCO, District Registries, High Court, and on cases of merit before the Court of Appeal, and the House of Lords, on costs disputes and points of law.

Outer Temple Chambers advises and acts in party & party and solicitor & own client disputes. Members’ expertise includes in particular:

• Terms of retainer
• The conduct of detailed assessments
• The effects of costs orders
• Conditional Fee Agreements
• The effect of Garrett and Myatt on CFAs
• Orders under CPR Part 44
• Public Funding
• The indemnity principle
• Terms of settlement
• The terms of experts’ retainers
• Remuneration for non-contentious work
• The position in relation to in-house solicitors
• After the event insurance
• Wasted costs orders
• The costs effects of acceptances of payments into court
• Security for costs
• Costs order against third parties

Notable cases include:

• Re Burchill -v- Bullard
  
• Re Puksis -v- Brumby
  
• Re Edwards -v- Devon & Cornwall Constabulary - 2001 EWCA Civ 388
  
• Re Fowler de Pledge -v- Smith
  
• Re Matthews -v- MIC - 2007 EWCA Civ 215
  
• Re Halloran -v Delaney- Ct of Appeal

If you would like further information, please contact Stephen Somerville on 020 7353 6381.