Costs and Funding 9th Edition

The ninth edition of Costs & Funding following the Civil Justice Reforms: Questions & Answers publishes with the White Book 2023. Depending on which format of the White Book you choose, your free copy will be delivered in the same format: it will be published in print, as an eBook using the award-winning ProView® app, and online with the White Book on Westlaw.

Costs & Funding following the Civil Justice Reforms: Questions & Answers is a unique book. Produced in conjunction with Practical Law, this practical and accessible book tackles common practitioner questions on the effects of the 2013 Jackson reforms on costs and funding. It not only states the law, as set out in the latest legislation, court rules, forms and case law, but also identifies and, where possible, tackles issues and inconsistencies. It sets out to answer questions posed on topics ranging from funding of litigation, case and costs management and proportionality to settlement offers, QOCS and summary assessment. The new edition adds a significant number of new questions and answers; updates the existing questions and answers and revised commentary in light of new and ongoing case law and legislation in the fast-evolving costs and funding landscape post-Jackson.

Each chapter starts with introductory commentary covering relevant legislation, case law and Lord Justice Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs: Final Report followed by the questions and answers, sub-divided under topics. The new edition includes coverage of changes made by recent CPR and legislation updates, including various changes to the CPR as a result of the CPRC’s simplification initiative such as the relocation of the costs management PD from PD 3E to PD 3D (152nd CPR update) and changes as a result of the substantial revision to the Chancery Guide in July 2022 and subsequent revision in October 2022.

The book covers other new important developments such as the proposed changes to the CPR rules on QOCS, the moves towards the extension of the fixed recoverable costs regime, and the Civil Justice Council’s holistic and strategic review of costs launched in July 2022. New significant case law covered in the 9th edition includes:

• Achille v Lawn Tennis Association Services Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1407
• University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust v Harrison [2022] EWCA Civ 1660
• Excalibur & Keswick Groundworks Ltd v McDonald [2023] EWCA Civ 18
• PGI Group Ltd v Thomas and others (Application for Permission to Appeal) [2022] EWCA Civ 233
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and others v LG Display Co Ltd and another (Costs) [2022] EWCA Civ 466
• Goknur v Aytacli [2021] EWCA Civ 1037
• Belsner v Cam Legal Services Ltd [2022] EWCA Civ 1387

Edited by former Senior Costs Judge Peter Hurst with contributions from a top team of costs and funding experts: District Judge Simon Middleton; Roger Mallalieu K.C., Judith Ayling K.C., Nicola Greaney K.C. and Shaman Kapoor, this is an authoritative and unique book that any practitioner involved with costs cannot afford to be without.