Cook on Costs, 2019 (A Guide to Legal Remuneration in Civil Contentious and Non-Contentious Business)

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Description
Cook on Costs remains the leading specialist commentary dealing with all costs developments in recent years. This new edition comprehensively assesses and advises on the results of those changes, incorporating commentary on how the courts are implementing the new costs and costs-related provisions Simon and Jason continue to keep Michael Cook's aim to write about costs in an 'interesting, coherent and digestible' way to the fore, meaning that his influence lives on, not simply with the retention of the title but in the ethos of the book. However they both bring their own, modern and accessible tone to the text continuing to provide a practical commentary rather than mere recitation of rules and theoretical law. As always, the aim of the text is to explain as well as inform, with liberal illustrations from decided cases, of which there are now plenty of examples.
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Table of Contents
Part I : Solictor and Client
Chapter 1 : The Retainer
Chapter 2 : Billing the Client
Chapter 3 : Recovery of Costs from Clients
Part II : Funding
Chapter 4 : Creating Conditional Fee Agreements
Chapter 5 : Running cases with Conditional fee Agreements
Chapter 6 : 'Old' Conditional fee Agreements and ATE Insurance
Chapter 7 : Damages-based Agreements
Chapter 8 : Contentions and Non-Contentious business Agreements
Chapter 9 : Insurance Arrangements
Chapter 10 : State and Commercial Funding
Part III : Between the Parties
Chapter 11 : An Overview of the Key Costs amendment to the Civil Procedure Rules
Chapter 12 : The Indemnity Principle
Chapter 13 : Prospective Costs Control - Introduction
Chapter 14 : prospective Costs Control - Proportionality
Chapter 15 : Prospective Costs Control - Costs and Case Management
Chapter 16 :  Prospective Control of Costs - The Relevance of Cases Budgets in Cases not Costs Managed
Chapter 17 :  Prospective Control of Costs - Costs Capping
Chapter 18 :  Prospective Control of the Costs - Prospective Costs Orders
Chapter 19 : Prospective Costs Order - Security for Costs
Chapter 20 : Costs Inducements to Settle
Chapter 21 : Costs Inducements to Settle
Chapter 22 : Costs awards between the Parties
Chapter 23 : Wasted Costs Orders
Chapter 24 : The bases of Costs
Chapter 25 : Payment on Account of Costs
Part IV : Quantification of Costs
Chapter 26 : Fixed Costs
Chapter 27 : Summary Assessment
Chapter 28 : Detailed assessment - Procedure
Chapter 29 : Detailed assessment - Statement of Case
Chapter 30 : Detailed assessment - Provisional assessment
Chapter 31 : Time and Value
Chapter 32 : Interest on Costs
Chapter 33 : Appeals against assessment
Part V : Special Cases
Chapter 34 : Children and Protected Parties
Chapter 35 : Litigants in person
Chapter 36 : Costs Payable under a Contract
Chapter 37 : Muti-Party litigation
Chapter 38 : Trustees and Personal Representatives
Chapter 39 : Family Proceedings
Chapter 40 : Costs against non-parties
Chapter 41 : Arbitration
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Author Details
Simon Middleton
Jason Rowley