Subjects:

Practice & Procedure, Key Annual Titles

Contents:

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, protective costs and budgeting

11. General rules and costs

12. VAT between parties

13. Security for costs

14. Offers to settle and payments into court

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. Contentious and non-contentious costs —

what is the difference?

22. Time

23. The other factors

24. Value Judgement

25. Fixed Costs

26. Small claims track

27. Fast track

28. Multi-track

29. Summary assessment

30. Detailed assessment

31. Appeals against assessment

32. Stated-funded costs

Part IV - Sanctions and Penalties

33. Wasted costs

34. Misconduct

Part V - Particular People

35. Non-parties

36. Costs payable under a contract

37. Trustees and personal representatives

38. Children and patients

39. Litigants in person

40. Group (multi-party) litigation orders

Part VI –

Funding

41. The Community Legal Service

42. Conditional fees

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 2008 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.