Getting your firm ready for the challenges of the new regime whilst maximising recovery and getting the best outcomes for your client
Only open to APIL members and members of corporate accredited firms
This half day course will offer tips and tactics on The New Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime including:
- Background to and October 2023 CPR changes
- Issues and APIL response
- The Judicial Review:
- Inquest
- Restoration of companies
- Clinical negligence
- Contracting out
- Vulnerability
- April 2024 amendments to the CPR
- Timescale for application of the new rules to personal injury claims
- The new tracks and the significance including:
- Costs
- Case management
- Scope of disclosure
- Extent of factual evidence
- Format of expert evidence
- Practicalities and tactics:
- Assessing the case at the outset
- Engaging with the defendant
- Predicting/agreeing allocation and costs regime
- Dealing with the case accordingly (by both sides)
- Letter of claim content
- Defendant tactics and counter tactics
- ADR:
- General approach
- Use of Part 36 offers
- Use of non-Part 36 offers
- Options for ADR generally
- Dealing with the court:
- Issue
- Preparing for allocation and assignment
- The prospect of reallocation
To book for both the morning and afternoon sessions, please follow this link:
https://www.apil.org.uk/training/fixed-recoverable-costs-conference-whole-day