Costs budgeting, hourly rates and appropriate use of partner time
Mr Justice Warby comments on hourly rates and the appropriate use of partner time in the course of setting costs budgets
Managing Director
Mr Justice Warby comments on hourly rates and the appropriate use of partner time in the course of setting costs budgets
On appeal against decisions made in the course of a detailed assessment in the Senior Courts Costs Office Mrs Justice Yip found (amongst other things) that the Deputy Master had been wrong to go behind the strict wording of the order for costs in order to give effect to what she believed the maker of the order had intended, rather than to what it actually said.