Costs

Members of 7 Bedford Row carry out advisory work and represent a range of clients before the appellate courts as well as the Supreme Court Costs Office and District Registries. Our experience includes disputes concerning:

• Conditional Fee Agreements, enforceability and level of success fees
• ATE premiums
• Level of costs recovered at detailed assessment
• Retainer issues
• Costs capping
• Wasted costs
• Costs issues specific to group litigation
• Third party applications for costs
• Costs in pre-action disclosure applications
• The effect on costs orders of Part 36 offers and payments
• Applications for interim costs orders
• Applications pursuant to CPR 44.3 that the successful party be deprived of all or part of its costs or that it pay costs referable to issues on which it was unsuccessful
• Applications relating to procedure and practice including the correct construction of CPR 47.8
• The effect of costs estimates on costs recovery