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Top Five Proclaim Enhancements
Proclaim is a great bit of kit and can be used straight out of the box, especially if you have also purchased some of the additional workflow packages that Eclipse Legal provide. However, if you want to get the most out of the software and ensure that the expensive...
Proclaim Risk Management
At Legal Practice Support we have yet to meet a solicitor who enjoys regulatory compliance. It’s a monotonous job after all, nobody will thank you for getting in the way of practising law or slowing the speed in which a case might be concluded. The role is so often...
The Legal Sector and Automation
2018, it’s a year that very few if any Claimant PI firms throughout England and Wales are looking forward to. The small claims limit will be raised to £2,000 and £5,000 for whiplash specifically which is a de facto abolishment of the claim. However, let’s not forgot...
What is a ‘Good Reason’ to Set Aside a Default Cost Certificate?
The subject matter revolved around an RTA LVI claim in which the Claimant had given instructions to discontinue his claim, giving the Defendant an automatic entitlement to their costs pursuant to CPR 44.9(c). The Defendant in turn served a Bill of Costs that was...
Can You Recover Hourly Rates on Fixed Costs Cases?
I’m sure we are all aware by now of the outcome of Broadhurst v Tan and Taylor v Smith [2016] EWCA Civ 94 (23 February 2016) in which indemnity costs were awarded for the Claimant having beaten their own Part 36 Offer on assessment. As a consequence, the Claimant was...
What Are The New Changes to Budgets?
Our good friend the Costs Budget (or the Precedent H as it is more formally known) has come back to haunt us again. First of all, there’s no need to worry. The changes that have come into force from 6 April 2016 only effect cases issued on or after this date. That...
The New Proportionality – Where are we at Now?
I’m sure by now you’ve read or heard of BNM v MGN Limited [2016] EWHC B13 (Costs) (03 June 2016). If not, it will soon be imprinted onto your retina through rinse and repeat Defendant party citations. BNM was a privacy case involving a primary school teacher having...
4 Common Proclaim Mistakes
Proclaim is an incredibly versatile piece of software, one only needs to look at Eclipse’s own website to gain a glimpse of the praise that is heaped upon the software. Not to mention it is the only CMS endorsed by the Law Society which is probably why over 24,000...
The Importance of Getting Your Costs Budget Right
Some of you may have heard a bit of noise being made about Merrix -v- Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 346 (QB) recently concerning the impact on your Cost Budget, the Judgment for which can be found here. But what’s all the noise about? Well, the...
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