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Mrs Justice Cockerill DBE and Senior Costs Judge Rowley
Mrs Justice Cockerill DBE and Senior Costs Judge Rowley:
Introduction
This judgment deals with the Costs Management Order (“CMO”) to be made following the second Costs Management Hearing (“CMH”). Like the reserved judgment from the first CMH, it is written by one of the Managing Judges sitting with the current Senior Costs Judge.
We have decided that there are two phases where it would be better not to approve budgets at this stage. These are the Expert reports phase in the Tranche 3 budgets and the ADR phase in the Second General budgets. These phases are considered at the end of this judgment.
- Heading
- Mrs Justice Cockerill DBE and Senior Costs Judge Rowley
- Background
- Lessons learned from the first CMH
- Stress testing “over lawyering”
- The comparison with Tranche 2
- Standard figures or a range of reasonable and proportionate costs?
- Claimants’ budgets generally: Lead Firms & Others
- Defendants’ budgets generally: Amount of costs actually being incurred
- CMCs and PTR
- Co-ordination
- Defendants
- Section 13
- Defendants
- Selecting Sample Claimants
- Defendants
- Individual Statements of Case
- Defendants
- Disclosure
- Defendants
- Witness statements
- Defendants
- Defendants
- Quantum Trial Preparation
- Defendants
- Quantum Trial
- Defendants
- Second General Phases – GLO Management Costs
- Second General Phases: Fortnightly Meetings
- The non-budgeted phases: Expert Reports and ADR / Settlement
- Conclusions