Warning from our Professor Dominic Regan!
Those dealing with disease cases must send out a letter of claim, if they have not already done so, this month or else they will be captured by the extensive new Fixed Costs regime. Do ensure that the letter is comprehensive lest a defendant assert that it is inadequate and therefore does not count. Equally, it should not take 61 hours to draft. It is a letter not a novella. See the fine judgment of Costs Judge James in HD V NORTHERN DEVON HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST (2023) EWHC 2118 (SCCO) where the hours were reduced to 15.
Dominic Regan, Director of the Knowledge Hub, Frenkel Topping.
01.09.2023