# Costs Law: Shaping New Developments into Solution-Focused Answers for Your Clients

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 of the Biggest Legal Challenges facing Costs Lawyers: Directly from Top-Flight KCs, Judges, Senior Juniors and Solicitors

- Format: Hybrid
- Date: Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- On-demand: 30 March 2023 until 3 August 2023
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- 5 hours CPD including APIL accreditation
- Rates: On-Demand Single £149.00 + VAT per person; On-Demand Team £1,500.00 + VAT per team
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/costs23

## Programme

- Chair's introduction: Costs law: Shaping new developments into solution-focused answers for your clients
  - Answered by Master Colin Campbell
- Appeals: How can you gain an edge for clients in costs appeals?
  - When do you bring them and when not, including caselaw and practical tips?
  - Answered by Jamie Carpenter KC, Hailsham Chambers
- Hourly rates: Given the sea change in judicial attitude, what amounts to a robust and persuasive justification for a departure from guideline hourly rates?
  - Answered by Master Jason Rowley
- QOCS: How do you mitigate the tricky situation brought about on QOCS following the cases of Cartwright and Ho?
  - Answered by Nicola Greaney, 39 Essex
- Solicitor-Own client: How will the Belsner litigation impact on solicitor-own clients disputes about large legal spend, and who will benefit?
  - Answered by George McDonald, 4 New Square
- Part 36: How do you ease the tension between part 36 offers and fixed costs following the CA's decision in Doyle v M&D Foundation (2022)?
  - Answered by Roger Mallalieu KC, 4 New Square
- Budgeting: Will budgeting be extinguished completely or altered, and how, following judicial/CPRC scrutiny?
  - Should it be postponed until after directions?
  - Answered by Alexander Hutton KC, Hailsham Chambers
- New fixed costs regime: Where are the challenges likely to be, can fixed costs be avoided and how will market practice change?
  - Answered by David Marshall, Anthony Gold

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