Cook on Costs 2013
Published on 30. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
1024 pages
978-1-4057-7026-2 (ISBN)
Description
Cook on Costs is well established as a practical, friendly guide providing clear and straightforward explanations of every aspect (except criminal costs) of the remuneration of solicitors and barristers for every level of reader.
Cook on Costs 2013 aims to explain as well as to inform, whilst being a practical guide through the complexities of all aspects of the costs of contentious and non-contentious legal business. No one who wishes to understand the principles and practice of legal costs should be without a copy.
Cook on Costs 2013 aims to explain as well as to inform, whilst being a practical guide through the complexities of all aspects of the costs of contentious and non-contentious legal business. No one who wishes to understand the principles and practice of legal costs should be without a copy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
LexisNexis UK
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Costs draftsmen; solicitors; barristers; legal executives, the judiciary
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4057-7026-2 (9781405770262)
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Michael Cook
Cook on Costs 2012
Book
12/2011
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Person
Content
Part I - Solicitor and Client;
1. The retainer;
2. Agreements with clients;
3. Form and content of a bill;
4. Solicitor and client VAT;
5. The client's rights;
6. Recovery of costs;
7. The solicitor and third parties;
Part II - Between the Parties;
8. Synopsis;
9. Vocabulary;
10. Estimates, capping, budgeting;
11. General rules about costs (CPR Part 44);
12. VAT between parties;
13. Security for costs;
14. Offers to settle and payments into court (CPR Part 36);
15. Family proceedings;
16. Getting the right order - and the order right;
17. The Indemnity principle;
18. Interest on costs;
19. Costs of successful non-state funded parties;
20. Arbitration;
Part III - Quantification;
21. What is the difference?
22. Time;
23. The other factors;
24. Value judgment;
25. Fixed Costs (CPR Part 45);
26. Small claims track;
27. Fast track;
28. Multi-track;
29. Summary assessment;
30. Detailed assessment;
31. Appeals against assessment;
Part IV - Sanctions and Penalties;
32. Wasted costs;
33. Misconduct;
Part V - Particular People;
34. Non-parties;
35. Costs payable under a contract;
36. Trustees and personal representatives;
37. Children and protected rights;
38. Litigants in person;
39. Group (multi-party) litigation orders;
Part VI - Funding;
40. State-funded costs;
41. Third party funding;
42. Conditional fees
1. The retainer;
2. Agreements with clients;
3. Form and content of a bill;
4. Solicitor and client VAT;
5. The client's rights;
6. Recovery of costs;
7. The solicitor and third parties;
Part II - Between the Parties;
8. Synopsis;
9. Vocabulary;
10. Estimates, capping, budgeting;
11. General rules about costs (CPR Part 44);
12. VAT between parties;
13. Security for costs;
14. Offers to settle and payments into court (CPR Part 36);
15. Family proceedings;
16. Getting the right order - and the order right;
17. The Indemnity principle;
18. Interest on costs;
19. Costs of successful non-state funded parties;
20. Arbitration;
Part III - Quantification;
21. What is the difference?
22. Time;
23. The other factors;
24. Value judgment;
25. Fixed Costs (CPR Part 45);
26. Small claims track;
27. Fast track;
28. Multi-track;
29. Summary assessment;
30. Detailed assessment;
31. Appeals against assessment;
Part IV - Sanctions and Penalties;
32. Wasted costs;
33. Misconduct;
Part V - Particular People;
34. Non-parties;
35. Costs payable under a contract;
36. Trustees and personal representatives;
37. Children and protected rights;
38. Litigants in person;
39. Group (multi-party) litigation orders;
Part VI - Funding;
40. State-funded costs;
41. Third party funding;
42. Conditional fees