English Law Basics · glossary
Set sums the rules allow the winner for its lawyers’ work on the intermediate track, whatever the lawyers charged. Here they come to about £30,000 of the £60,000 a side would spend. With the court fees and the engineer’s report on top, the winner gets back about £35,000. Court and time map, row 5 (internal) · Chapter 10 · see Mediation, Track
Explained in Chapter 10, Legal Costs: Who Pays, Settlement and the Advice Letter, of English Law Basics.
But the winner never gets everything back. Frescalva’s claim would run on the intermediate track (Chapter 9). On that track the winner recovers only fixed costs: set sums the rules allow for the lawyers’ work, whatever the lawyers charged. The court fees and the engineer’s report come back on top.Read Chapter 10, Legal Costs: Who Pays, Settlement and the Advice Letter →
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