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

> Court-Proven, Solution-Focused Answers to 7 of the Thorniest Questions facing Costs Practitioners: Directly from Top-Flight Judges and Kings Counsel

- Format: Hybrid
- Date: Thursday, 12 March 2026, 10:00AM to 4:00PM (registration from 9:30AM)
- On-demand: 19 March 2026 until 10 September 2026
- Venue: The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR
- 5 hours CPD
- Rates: On-Demand Single £199.00 + VAT per person
- Status: This conference has taken place
- Book: https://whitepaper.co.uk/conferences/costs26

## Programme

- Chair's Introduction: Costs litigation: Shaping new developments into solution-focused answers for your clients
  - Chaired by Master Colin Campbell
- Mazur: What is to be done about Mazur [2025] ? What constitutes the "conduct of litigation" and what can be done by non-qualified personnel?
  - Answered by Roger Mallalieu KC
- Bill of Costs: If the new-style Bill of Costs in Precedent S format "is not working", what are the courts expecting at detailed assessment — particularly in preparing the papers?
  - Answered by Senior Costs Judge Rowley
- Precedent H: How will the shift from Precedent H to Precedents Z, RZ and TZ affect costs budgeting strategy, preparation and recoverability?
  - Answered by Alex Hutton KC
- Interim payments: How has Petrofac [2025] EWCA changed existing thinking on (1) interim payment on account and (2) security for costs - and how do you advise your clients?
  - Answered by PJ Kirby KC
- Fixed Costs: What is the latest judicial thinking on Fixed Recoverable costs, including exceptional circumstances and unreasonable behaviour, and what amendments are in the pipeline?
  - Answered by Andrew Roy KC
- Part 36: How far can you push the court on Part 36 offers and their consequences for costs, including 90/10 offers, adequate reasons, suspension of interest, and out-of-time offers?
  - Answered by Judith Ayling KC
- Non-Party Costs Orders: What is now deemed 'fair and just in all the circumstances' in non-party cost order cases, and how do you advise clients effectively?
  - Answered by Jamie Carpenter KC
- New developments: What is on the horizon in costs, and how should costs lawyers be preparing?
  - Answered by David Marshall, Anthony Gold

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