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Taking the Legal Jargon out of Legal Fees

Time for Plain Language

Some of the terms used by lawyers are sometimes, we think, not designed with clients in mind. We've tried to explain some of the terms that you might ...

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Your Local Solicitor Isn't so Local These Days

Increasingly clients are using distant solicitors, using an online sign up process

In days gone by members of the public would visit their local, usually family solicitor, for all their legal requirements. That has been changing and ...

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Mark Carlisle

Mark Carlisle

Mark is founder of Checkmylegalfees.com. He started his career in legal costs in 1987 at a firm in Buckinghamshire and set up his own Law Costs Drafti...

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Senior Courts Costs Office Guide 2018 is published

Updated guidance from the High Court

An updated Guide has been published by the Senior Courts Costs Office. The guide reflects the many changes in general costs law since 2013 and include...

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Herbert -v- HH Law Limited - A very important decision on a client's ability to challenge both success fees and ATE premiums

If a payment by a solicitor is properly to be classified as a solicitor's disbursement, it should be contained in his bill of costs and thus be amenab...

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