Costs litigation features prominently in our members’ practices. Our specialist team brings extensive experience of arguing complex costs issues at all levels of courts and tribunals. 

We are regularly instructed on costs budgeting at all stages, including the preparation of Precedent H and representation at costs management hearings. Early involvement often removes the need instruct external costs lawyers, helping clients manage overall litigation spend more effectively.  

Our barristers frequently advise on costs disputes across a range of practice areas, particularly personal injury and at all levels of value. This includes detailed guidance on the tactical use and consequences of Part 36 offers, QOCS, fundamental dishonesty under section 57, the enforceability of CFAs, interim payments, and orders for costs. We also have significant expertise in detailed assessment proceedings, including disputes over proportionality, hourly rates, success fees, costs capping, interest, and the circumstances in which there is ‘good reason’ to depart from approved costs budgets. 

Members are regularly instructed to appear at detailed assessment hearings in the SCCO, District Registries, and before specialist costs judges nationwide.  

It is this comprehensive knowledge, which spotlights Farrar’s Building’s ‘consistently high-quality practitioners’ in the costs sphere.