Why I don't agree with the Fixed Recoverable Costs proposals
Below is my draft response to the Ministry of Justice's consultation on Fixed Recoverable Costs. Please note it has not copied and pasted as well as I would have hoped..... Dear Sirs, Response to your consultation on extending fixed recoverable costs in civil cases (published on 28/3/2019) I write in response to the above consultation. Good intentions From the outset I wish to stress that I believe reforms of some description to control legal costs are a good idea (who doesn’t want to know precisely where they stand when it comes to their legal costs) but in practice these particular reforms do not work and should not be adopted. If we are to make ground breaking reforms we have to ensure we are properly informed. There is not enough evidence currently available to support these reforms. Most of my points below have not been considered in any context at all by either the MOJ or the Judiciary. I find that odd and concerning when yo...