Overview
Join Brett Dixon, APIL Secretary and Senior Fellow, for an essential winter 2025 costs update.
This session provides the latest developments in case law, key rule changes, and insights into major hot topics in the world of legal costs. It is designed to ensure practitioners are fully informed and equipped to navigate the evolving costs landscape.
Learning objectives
- Damages Based Agreements
- Current position and developments
- Enforceability issues with hybrid DBAs
- Conducting and Supervising Litigation
- Mazur and related issues
- Future implications and expected developments
- QOCS and Non-Party Costs
- Part 36
- Consequences following judgment
- Requirements for form and content
- Interest considerations
- Costs Update
- Costs budgeting
- Proportionality
- Sanctions for conduct
- Rehabilitation costs recovery
- Indemnity costs
- Fundamental Dishonesty
- Associated costs risks
- Issues arising on detailed assessment
- CPR Costs Update
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