Monthly Archives: October 2011

REUTERS | Issei Kato
October 4, 2011

What’s the point in writing it down?

Remember March 2004? Very few of us had a Blackberry, Katie Price and Peter Andre had recently met in the jungle, and Tony Blair was still Prime Minister. It was also the month that Gordon Brown, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced a review of the Construction Act 1996. Well, after seven years and what seems like endless consultation, the amendments to the Construction Act 1996 finally came into force in England and Wales on Saturday (1 October 2011). They have another month to wait north of the border.

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REUTERS | Herwig Prammer
October 3, 2011

Should I be worried about the costs management pilot?

The extension of the costs management pilot came into effect over the weekend (on 1 October). From now until the pilot ends on 30 September 2012, any case in the TCC and Mercantile Courts that has its first case management conference (CMC) during the pilot period, will be subject to the pilot. As such, the parties will be required to comply with Practice Direction 51G (PD 51G) and complete and file Precedent HB with the court. They will then be subject to the court’s costs management powers, including its approval (via the making of a costs management order (CMO)) of a party’s costs estimate. Continue reading →

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