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QOCS applies to detailed assessment proceedings
Background: The case of Challis v Bradpiece [2024] EWHC 1124 (SCCO) revolves around the application of the Qualified One-Way Costs...
William Mackenzie
May 19, 20242 min read
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Solicitor's Act preliminary issues hearing in relation to interim payments
Pickering v. Thomas Mansfield Solicitors Ltd [2024] EWHC 1107 (SCCO) William Mackenzie, acted in this matter and successfully resisted a...
William Mackenzie
May 15, 20242 min read
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Transparency and Clarity required for Solicitor's bills - Hensley vs Morris Law Limited
Hensley vs Morris Law Limited – High Court – [2024] EWHC 1101 (Costs) The High Court's decision in the case of Hensley vs Morris Law...
William Mackenzie
May 14, 20242 min read
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Solicitors Act assessment - disclosure of call recordings
The argument Costs Judge Rowley presided over six cases that requested assessments under the Solicitors Act 1974, initially intended as...
William Mackenzie
Nov 1, 20233 min read
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Get your costs estimates correct to your client...or else...
In a recent legal judgment, the court outlined its decisions regarding the costs and fees in a case involving a Solicitor's Act dispute...
William Mackenzie
Oct 29, 20234 min read
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William Mackenzie ranked in Legal 500 for a second year.
We are pleased to report William Mackenzie remains ranked by the Legal 500 for Costs Lawyers as a Next Generation Partner. In the world...
William Mackenzie
Oct 13, 20231 min read
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Claims made for the financial benefit of a person other than the claimant - attempts to narrow QOCS
This was an application brought by a Defendant in order to try and seek to avert the QOCS regime by seeking to argue the claim was...
William Mackenzie
Oct 13, 20234 min read
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Mackenzie Costs represents Cobra and bitcoin.org on appeal vs Craig Wright
In what must be one of the most unusual issues to arise in a detailed assessment, Mackenzie Costs has represented Cøbra and the...
William Mackenzie
Sep 18, 20232 min read
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Costs This Week - 8th November 2021
Firstly, I want to mention the excellent King's Chambers video update Erica Bedford and Andrew Hogan produced on Ho v Adelekun. This...
William Mackenzie
Nov 14, 20213 min read
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The fall out of Ho v Adelekum
We are in for a period of uncertainty and additional satellite litigation as a result of this judgment. Defendant's have lost the ability...
William Mackenzie
Nov 7, 20212 min read
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Big reductions to bill of costs leads to cut in assessment costs
Master Brown, undertaking an assessment of the Claimant's bill of costs, in Milbrooke Construction Ltd v Jones [2021] EWHC B20 (Costs)...
William Mackenzie
Oct 26, 20211 min read
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