New costs management rules — a good thing for litigation clients?
Much has been written about the current massive shake-up to the litigation costs regime, including the abolition of the recovery of lawyer’s CFA (no-win, no-fee) success fees from the losing party. However, another facet of the new costs rules will be equally, if not more, important to litigants — the introduction of costs management rules, also known as costs budgeting.
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