BL-2023-BRS-000024 - [2025] EWHC 2898 (Ch)

The next point taken is that the attendances on the defendants and on their opponents are excessive, at 89.3 hours for the former and 31.9 hours for the latter. (These figures do not include time spent on documents, which is dealt with below.) Given the relatively limited time for which the solicitors were instructed before trial, these figures seem too high for the work which would have needed to be done. I also note that they do not include as much delegation by partners to less expensive fee earners as I would have thought appropriate in a case of this sort, which requires litigation experience, but not of any particular specialist kind. For both these reasons, I consider that the notional profit costs should be further reduced.