Costs Update - The Impact of Recent Cases on Clinical Negligence & Personal Injury Practice

Introduction

This virtual classroom seminar will take delegates through timely costs issues in relation to personal injury and clinical negligence cases and the top costs cases of 2023-2024 and will provide practical advice and tactical tips.

The session is aimed at all practitioners dealing with legal costs in clinical negligence and personal injury or those who wish to develop their existing legal costs skills and knowledge.

What You Will Learn

This live and interactive course will cover the following:

• Cases caught by the extension of fixed recoverable costs to cases up to £100,000 from October 2023
• Proposals to introduce fixed recoverable costs in lower value clinical negligence claims in April 2024
• The perils of overestimating budgets, and how to persuade the Court that you haven’t
• The relevance of the 2024 updated guideline hourly rates, and all the situations in which you will need to convince the Court it should depart from them
• Detailed Assessment in practice - your work under the microscope
• The role of ADR in substantive claims and costs assessment proceedings following Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil CBC [2023]

Recording of live sessions: Soon after the Learn Live session has taken place you will be able to go back and access the recording - should you wish to revisit the material discussed.