Costs cases post-Birketu: law firms and the employed solicitor rule
Can incorporated practices claim costs for their own lawyers? Two recent cases test the limits and raise further questions.
The latest developments in Law Society advocacy & law reform: February 2016
The Law Society’s Policy and Practice team brings you a wrap-up of the most important issues of the moment.
Costs assessments: unravelling the mysteries of certificate judgments
A certificate of determination and a judgment which arises on its filing are distinct. By MICHELLE CASTLE and ANDREW BAILEY.
Better practice in the Family Provision List
Earlier this year, Justice Hallen delivered a tutorial to practitioners on practice in the Family Provision List, entitled Current Issues from the Perspective of the…
Costs assessments: recent cases in the Court of Appeal
Separate certificates of determination should be issued by a costs assessor in respect of each costs order but failure to raise the issue may be…
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…