Transcripts of Supreme Court Costs Office Decisions:
new entries published on 17 July 2008
Conditional Fee Agreements
Formality requirements
Puksis v Brumby [2008] EWHC 90095 (Costs) (January 2008 Master Gordon-Saker; an appeal to the Court of Appeal is listed for 17 November 2008)
Hibberd v Fawcett Old Ltd & Anor [2008] EWHC 90102 (Costs) (March 2008 : Master Wright; an appeal to the Court of Appeal is listed for 17 November 2008)
Tandara v Weightmans Solicitors [2008] EWHC 90101 (Costs) (March 2008 : Master O'Hare)
Forde v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWHC 90105 (Costs) (30 April 2008 : Master Campbell; an appeal to a High Court Judge is listed for 4 November 2008)
Success fees
Holliday v E C Realisations Ltd [2008] EWHC 90103 (Costs) (March 2008 : Master Gordon-Saker)
Forde v Birmingham City Council [2008] EWHC 90105 (Costs) (30 April 2008 : Master Campbell; an appeal to a High Court Judge is listed for 4 November 2008)
Practice and Procedure
Appropriation of payments made under an order for security of costs
Dranez & Ors v Hayek & Ors [2008] EWHC 90104 (Costs) (April 2008 : Master Rogers)
Disclosure of documents
Vinayak & Anor (t/a Doctors Chambers) v Lovegrove & Eliot (a firm) [2007] EWHC 90096 (Costs) (July 2007 : Master Campbell)
Hourly rates for solicitors
Holliday v E C Realisations Ltd [2008] EWHC 90103 (Costs) (March 2008 : Master Gordon-Saker)
Dranez & Ors v Hayek & Ors [2008] EWHC 90107 (Costs) (April 2008 : Master Rogers)
Meaning of "costs of and incidental to"
Newall & Anor v Lewis & Ors [2007] EWHC 90078 (Costs) (March 2007 : Master Campbell: reversed in part on appeal; see [2008] EWHC 910 (Ch))
Meaning of "costs of claim” and “costs of counterclaim "
Bateman v Joyce [2008] EWHC 90100 (Costs) (February 2008 : Master Campbell)
Value Added Tax
Whether VAT on costs was recoverable from the paying party
Lewald-Jezierska v Solicitors-In-Law Ltd & Ors [2008] EWHC 90106 (Costs) (May 2008 : Master Rogers)