Cost Conference 2012

Event Details

Course Code: S2691
Speaker:
Specialisations: Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, Conferences,
Venue: Liverpool Law Society, 2nd Floor, The Cotton Exchange, Bixteth Street, Liverpool, L3 9LQ
CPD hours: 5.5 hours
Date: Wednesday, 14 March, 2012
Time: 09:30 - 16:45

Members Price: £199
Non Members Price: £249

Note: 20% Vat added at checkout

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Event Description

****Multi Delegate Discount Offer**** First booking charged at full price, any further bookings from the same firm will be charged at a discounted rate: Members = £149.00 Non Members = £199.00

9.00 – 9.25 Registration

9.25 – 9.30 Chair opens ~ Professor Dominic Regan

9.30 – 10.30 Jackson ~ Prof Dominic Regan

· What will happen and when?

· Transitional provisions

· Where opportunity exists for practitioners

10.30 – 11.15 Putting Profit back into solicitors costs ~ Teresa Aitken, PI Costings

· Practical Tips on avoiding the pitfalls

· Common Costs Arguments

· How to maximize costs

11.15 – 11.30 Refreshments

11.30 -12.00 A Lively look at the art of profitable file time recording: for Claimant’s and Defendant’s alike ~ Stewart McCulloch

· The Essentials

· Missed Time

· Recovering Estimated Time

· How to Record

12.00 – 12.45 Costs and your Retainer~ Michael Bacon, ACL

· Essential costs requirements in retainer

· Estimates of costs

· Can we refuse to work in the event of non-payment of our fees?

12.45 – 1.30 Lunch

1.30 – 2.15 Part 36 & Settling Cases ~ Prof Dominic Regan

· Multiple offers

· The new approach to success under the revised 36.14

· When are costs recoverable?

· The traps for litigators

2.15 – 3.00 The commercial future: Personal Injury and Costs? ~ David Pilling

· Does Personal Injury pay? If so, to who and why?

· General costs case law update

· A personal professional history as to why costs matters

3.00 -3.15 Refreshments

3.15 – 4 How to Prepare Points of Dispute ~ Robin Dunne

· Tips for better points of dispute

· Common mistakes

· Dealing with preliminary issues

· When to use skeleton arguments

· Amending points of dispute- when and

4 – 4.45 Preparation of Replies to Points of Dispute, interim costs certificates and detailed assessment bundles ~ Nick McDonnell

Replies

· The rules

· Format

· Replies and counsel

· When and when not to file replies

· The consequences of not serving replies

· Compliant Points of Dispute (Hepple v Working Links Ltd)

· Replies and the County Court Provisional Assessment Pilot Scheme

· Amending replies

· The implications of signing them

Interim Costs Certificates

· When to seek them

· The difference between interim costs certificates and payment on account of costs in detailed assessment proceedings

Detailed Assessment Bundles

· The rules and alternative methods of preparation

4.45 Close

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