Civil Costs, 4th Edition

Offering a thorough and authoritative survey of the costs regime under the Civil Procedures Rules, Civil Costs:

• Helps practitioners understand the technicalities of the law
• Deals with all area of civil costs from the basic principles of entitlement to the practical details of how cost are actually assessed
• Clarifies the many areas of uncertainty to ensure you fully understand the points of law and procedures being discussed
• Covers appeals against the summary and detailed assessment of costs
• Examines wasted costs sanctions and the court’s inherent jurisdiction
• Includes a chapter on costs in arbitration proceedings, proceedings before the court of protection and before other tribunals
• Looks at the recovery of costs and the charging of interest on the unpaid amount
• Includes coverage of the award and assessment of costs in proceedings before the House of Lords and the European Court of Justice
• Looks at Conditional Fee Agreements, including the Solicitors’ Code of Conduct and the problem area of After the Event insurance
• Covers Assessing, costs capping and the move towards ‘fixed’ costs
• Analyses the key costs cases since the last edition including: Campbell vs. MGN, Agassi vs. Robinson (HMIT) and Nizami vs. Butt