Since 19 March we have been required to send all CPR Part 7 designated money only claims to the County Court Money Claims Centre at the Salford Business Centre. The goal is to reduce costs and processing time.
Conveyancing Solicitors in Sevenoaks
Why can’t lawyers get costs information right?
July 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
It’s over 20 years since the first guidance about costs – the Written Professional Standards – appeared, followed closely by Rule 15 and the Solicitors’ Costs Information and Client Care Code, yet complaints about costs, and the related information provided to clients, remain one of the highest causes for complaint.
Sevenoaks Divorce Lawyers
There’s a price to pay for slashing costs
July 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
You’d have thought that, after writing about legal services for so long, I’d know better than to jump at the cheapest offer when it came to my turn. Sadly not.
Recently I completed a housing transaction with a pile ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap online conveyancer. Wooed by a razzmatazz website and fixed-fee offering, I secured a cool £100 discount on the local solicitor’s quote. What could possibly go wrong?
As it turns out, quite a lot. Phones went unanswered, correspondence was unattributed and an extra, unforeseen, cost thrown in halfway through the transaction.
Sevenoaks Divorce Lawyers
Avoiding another costs war
March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The purpose of this article is to avert Costs War II. If the Ministry of Justice takes no notice of it and a costs war ensues, it will not be able to say that it was not warned.
Divorce Solicitors Sevenoaks
Master of the Rolls slams Irwin Mitchell’s ‘out of kilter’ costs
February 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Irwin Mitchell has been forced to defend its pricing policy after the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger highlighted a case in which it charged six times the amount paid out to its client.
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