Counsels fast track trial fees

Back to top Amount of fixed costs Back to top Settlement at Stage 2 where the claimant is a child Back to top Settlement at Stage 3 where the claimant is a child Back to top Where the court orders that the claim is not suitable to be determined under the Stage 3 Procedure and the claimant is a child Back to top Settlement before proceedings are issued under Stage 3 Back to top Additional advice on the value of the claim Failure to comply or electing not to continue with the relevant Protocol — costs consequences Back to top Where the parties have settled after proceedings have started Back to top Adjournment Back to top Account of payment of Stage 1 and Stage 2 fixed costs Back to top Costs-only application after a claim is started under Part 8 in accordance with Practice Direction 8B Amount of fixed costs — RTA Protocol Back to top Interim applications Back to top Amount of scale costs Back to top Summary assessment of the costs of an application where a party has behaved unreasonably Back to top Amount of fixed commencement costs in a County Court claim for the recovery of money Back to top Amount of fast track trial costs Back to top Power to award more or less than the amount of fast track trial costs Back to top Fast track trial costs where there is more than one claimant or defendant Opting out, and other cases where rules Limit on costs recoverable from a party in an Aarhus Convention claim Varying the limit on costs recoverable from a party in an Aarhus Convention claim Challenging whether the claim is an Aarhus Convention claim Back to top Footnotes c.

Back to text c. Section 25 1A was inserted by the Finance Act c. Back to text. Get email alerts. Enter email address:. Form name:. Find a court form. Amount of fixed commencement costs in a claim for the recovery of money or goods. Time spent by counsel at a hearing will include conferences and negotiations at the door of the court as well as time spent in advocacy. Lawson v. Tiger [] 1All ER Travelling time or expenses are not allowed in addition to the brief fee except in Family cases.

This is a calculation by the assessor of the work that would have been incurred had the case been conducted by a single fee earner without recourse to counsel.

In assessing the maximum fee it should be remembered that the usual rule for assessments still applies-that payment should only be made for work reasonably and necessarily done. Applying the relevant Contract rates to the work remaining after excluding i and ii will give the first figure to be added into the maximum fee and the most that can be paid to the supplier.

Assess the work undertaken by counsel as it may have been done by the fee earner had the case been conducted without counsel. This is not simply an addition of the work done by counsel.

For instance the supplier advocates may be more familiar with the case and may not be expected to spend as much further time as counsel preparing or attending upon the client. Included in this second stage should be the hearing time and waiting and travelling. However, consider whether the fee earner would have instructed agents. If you travel is included, the time should only be that which the supplier would have incurred, not counsel.

The maximum fee is the total of the figures arrived under stage one and two. Assess the reasonable fees of counsel as though the case had been undertaken in the county court. By deducting what you intend to allow to counsel before VAT from the maximum fee, you arrive at the amount available to pay thesupplier. The supplier should be paid this amount or the figure arrived at in stage one whichever is the lesser figure. Please try again later. Thank you! Follow us on:.

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