Join Brett Dixon, APIL Secretary and Senior Fellow, for a vital costs update covering developments up to Summer 2025. Stay informed with the latest case law, key rule changes, and insights into the most pressing current issues in costs.
Brett will cover:
- Hot Topics in Costs
- Update on Civil Justice Council costs and pre-action protocol work
- Client damages and deductions
- The position post Oakwood v Menzies
- CPR Update
- Rule changes you need to know
- Simplified costs budgeting
- Court fees
- The upcoming stocktake
- Reforms and Reviews
- PACCAR and the CJC litigation funding report recommendations
- The CJC Solicitors Act Review
- Case Law Update
- Part 36 case watch
- Fixed recoverable costs – exceptional circumstances and unreasonable behaviour
- Medical reporting agency fee breakdowns – what are the courts currently saying
- Wasted costs and hallucinating AI case references
- Client bills and assessments
- Indemnity costs
- Fundamental dishonesty round up
- Proportionality
Vice President, Law Society
Brett is a consultant solicitor with higher rights of audience for all civil proceedings. His specialism is civil procedure with a specific interest in digital change. He also provides training and consultancy services in relation to personal injury, technology and practice development.
He is also the Deputy Vice President Elect of the Law Society of England & Wales. He has been the president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers on two occasions. He is a senior fellow of APIL and chair of the Senior Fellow Appointments Committee. He is involved in decisions in relation to interventions in civil proceedings recently including Belsner v Cam, Ho v Adelekun, and Hassam v Rabot along with judicial reviews by APIL of the fixed recoverable costs rules and the discount rate. He is a past member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee and the current legal expert member of the Online Procedure Rule Committee. He is a director of Medco and a member of the Official Injuries Advisory Group... view full biography