How and when to get your costs assessed
There may be a time where a client doesn’t pay your bill and there are ways the solicitor can recover the amount.
The Legal Profession Uniform Law: new costs provisions ahead
This article is the third in a series of articles for the LSJ on the various aspects of the new Legal Profession Uniform Law (LPUL) that will soon regulate…
The 10 commandments of costs assessment and review
The Court of Appeal’s recent decision in Wende v Howarth has redefined the principles applicable to the assessment of party/party costs. By CHRISTOPHER BEVAN.
The NSW experiment: the regulation and assessment of legal costs
The assessment process has drawn well-founded criticism, but we should not pronounce it a failure without giving the experiment its best chance of success. By…