What is important when recovering costs?
- Accurate Bill drafting
You want to have the confidence of knowing that your bill properly represents the work that has been done. This includes ensuring all recoverable time is claimed, ensuring the narrative justifies the work done and ensuring all disbursements and additional liabilities are claimed.
- Utilisation of modern and flexible costs software
We use bespoke software for preparing our bills. This enables us to cost files quicker, make amendments without any hassle and allows us more flexibility when assessing offers to settle and risks.
- A quick and efficient service
Whilst maintaining a very high standard of care and without compromising on quality, we are able to offer a quick and efficient service. We aim to commence drafting every bill within 14-21 days of receipt of the file.
- Recognising the strengths of your case
When providing you with your draft bill, we will identify the strengths and weakness in relation to the costs claimed. This will enable you to give informed instructions when it comes to offers to settle and minimise your risk and costs exposure.
- Practical and commercial advice
We put ourselves in your clients’ shoes! We will give you open and honest advice regarding your prospects of success and whether any step is proportionate to the sums in dispute.
- A robust approach to negotiations
We will not spend hours in protracted stepping stone negotiations. If a negotiated settlement is possible, we will be aggressive in concluding this as soon as possible.
- An effective and confident Advocate, should the matter proceed to Court
Where a negotiated settlement is not possible, our team has lots of experience in conducting Detailed Assessments. We have appeared before District Judges, Regional Costs Judges and Masters in a number of Courts across the Country. We have appeared in the Senior Courts Costs Office on many occasions and whilst maintaining a professional and courteous approach at all times, we will vigorously attack or defend the costs in question.
We provide the following services:
- Bills of Costs for Detailed Assessment
- Statements of Costs for Summary Assessment
- Estimates for Allocation and Listing Questionnaires
- Schedules of Costs for negotiations
- Negotiating settlements
- Replies to Points of Dispute
- Skeleton Arguments on points of law
- Interim Costs Applications
- Advocacy