Harrison v University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust

Subject Matter

COSTS — Costs management — Approval of costs budget — Costs management order in medical negligence claim — Detailed assessment by costs judge after settlement of claim — Whether departure from approved costs budget permissible only for “good reason” — Whether same requirement for costs incurred pre-budget — When case “commenced” for purposes of transitional provisions relating to proportionality — CPR r 3.18, Practice Direction 3E, para 7.4, r 44.3(7)(a)

[2017] EWCA Civ 792; [2017] 1 WLR 4456; [2017] WLR (D) 420, CA

Commentary

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Civil Procedure Rules 1998 - Presumptions relating to identical and different wording 1.18

Civil Procedure Rules 1998 - Claim, cause, proceedings, case, action, matter 1.21

Civil Procedure Rules 1998 - Purposive interpretation 1.16

Civil Procedure Rules 1998 - Issue, start, commence, brought, made 1.22

Costs Budgets and the Costs of the Proceedings - Assessment where there is a costs management order 43.21

Costs Budgets - Nature of costs budgets 43.5

Agreement or Approval of Costs Budgets - Agreed or approved costs budgets in subsequent interim applications 43.13

Agreement or Approval of Costs Budgets - Incurred costs 43.11