Our dedicated team offers professional support in managing, negotiating, and recovering legal costs across a wide range of cases. With our proven expertise, you can trust us to deliver an efficient and proportionate service, ensuring you get paid for the work you have done
Our expertise covers but not limited to:
- Commercial Litigation claims
- Clinical Negligence
- Personal Injury
- Professional Negligence
- Historic Sexual Abuse claims.
In addition to the above, we deal with a number of niche areas of costs to include Court of Protection matters, Dental Negligence, POCA, and other bespoke work as required.
Our Commitment to You
We pride ourselves on our commercial and realistic approach along with our technical knowledge and passionate tenacity to obtain a good result.
We achieve your targets at a proportionate cost and work with you to exceed your expectations. As part of a long-established legal practice, we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and therefore qualified to deal with all relevant procedural steps.
It’s the little attention to detail that sets us apart from the rest. Whether it is asking Counsel for a reduction to reflect any reduction in profit costs or challenging unfair disbursements on your behalf; we will go the extra mile to assist. We are as interested in your bottom line as you are, it is this that truly sets us apart from most independent costs companies.
We are confident that if you trust us to deal with costs on your behalf on a case, you will keep instructing us in the future. Some of our current clients have been instructing us for a period in excess of ten years.
We can provide you with a variety of services, including negotiations, litigation and recovery, in a streamlined economic and professional manner.
Testimonials
Robert Boyd – Head of costs
Robert has the necessary skills and experience to evaluate and progress complex costs matters while understanding the constant pressures on fee earners to deliver results in a post Jackson climate.
Paula Dixon – Head of negotiations
Well known in the industry, Paula is highly regarded by both clients and opponents alike. Paula is a tenacious and keen negotiator able to secure the absolute best recovery on behalf of her clients.
Our Promise To You
We promise to:
- Understand your needs and requirements as an individual practice
- Be a one-point call so you are never left in the dark as to the position on your files
- Charge you a reasonable fee and provide quality work
- Have all work to be checked by a Grade A Solicitor
- Provide you with regular updates
- Provide a bespoke service to meet your business needs
- Deliver your firm’s specific requirements
- Provide prices that are competitive and proportionate
- Conduct work in a timely and efficient manner
What We Do
We take pride in the advice that we give and the work we undertake.
Whether it is preparing an accurate Precedent H document and advising on any updates to the Budget that may be required, or risk assessing at the end of the case to ensure a reasonable recovery, you can trust in us to act in your best interests.
We are not afraid to run cases to Court, where appropriate, to get a fair result. But similarly, we do not advise you to run cases where the litigation risks make it uneconomic to do so.
We also pride ourselves on being an equitable costs company and therefore we do our very best to keep our costs to a minimum and be reasonable in our charges.
Our dedicated team can work with you to envisage the likely future costs, and can clearly spell out the assumptions should the worst happen and the case takes a different path.
Our Areas of Expertise
We have extensive experience in relation to costs covering a whole range of areas of law. Some of the areas with regards to costs that we practice in are as follows:
- Commercial law
- Clinical Negligence
- Personal Injury
- Professional Negligence
- Historic Sexual Abuse
- Property Disputes
- POCA
- Family law
- Solicitor/ Own client disputes
- Common law disputes
What We Can Do For You
We can deal with any area of a costs claim or dispute in the appropriate manner.
Some of the work that we undertake are as follows.
- Preparing N260’s/ Statements for Trial
- Preparing Bills of Costs
- Negotiations in relation to costs
- Advice on any costs issue, to include retainers and other aspects.
- Preparing Precedent H Costs Budgets.
- Advising in relation to Costs Management.
- Undertaking negotiations on Precedent H Costs Budgets.
- Advocacy be that at Detailed Assessment or at a CCMC hearing.
- Preparation of Points of Dispute.
- Challenges to Bills of Costs, paying party objections.
- Drafting Replies to Points of Dispute.
- Setting matters down for Provisional and Detailed Assessment.
However, it is our pride and ethos in obtaining the best result or undertaking the best work possible that is the defining issue from our clients’ perspective. In addition to that, we charge reasonable amounts for our work and try and keep our fees to be proportionate to the issues.
As part of the provision of our excellent and personal service to you, we guarantee free collection and delivery of all files from your office to ours and back upon satisfactory completion of the work
