Making vulnerability visible
Ensuring access to justice
Vulnerability is often unseen, yet its impact on civil litigation is profound. This book shines a light on the additional time, skill and care required to support vulnerable clients and shows how the associated legal costs can and should be fairly accounted for and recovered by legal practitioners who act for them.
Vulnerability and Costs provides practical guidance on identifying vulnerability, recording and justifying the extra, necessary work and navigating the rules on reasonableness, proportionality, fixed recoverable costs and detailed assessment.
Bridging law, practice and humanity, it is an essential resource for costs lawyers, litigators and judges committed to ensuring that access to justice is not just a principle, but a reality.
