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The procedure by which a court, when making an order about costs, orders a party to pay a determined amount of money rather than fixed costs or costs subject to detailed assessment.
The general rule is that costs will be subject to summary assessment at the end of every hearing or trial lasting not more than a day. See the Guide to the Summary Assessment of Costs.
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Part 36 offers—split trial cases This Practice Note considers Part 36 offers in split trial cases noting the additional factors that are relevant when making or receiving a Part 36, particularly with regard to disclosure and acceptance of Part 36 offers. Note, CPR 36.12, CPR 36.16(3)(d) and CPR 36.16(4) contain additional specific rules relevant to Part 36 offers in split trial cases. Why have specific provision for split trial cases? CPR 36.2(3) confirms that a party can make a Part 36 offer in respect of 'the whole or part of, or any issue that arises in a claim, counterclaim or other additional claim, or an appeal or cross appeal from a decision made at trial'. It is clear and, indeed, anticipated that parties may make Part 36 offers which are limited to individual issue(s) and which may be decided at separate trials. Examples might be a Part 36 offer limited only to liability or quantum or on a specific issue such as, eg limitation. Equally, the offeror...
Dispute Resolution—Checklists and Flowcharts This Practice Note contains links to and a summary of Checklists and Flowcharts available within the Dispute Resolution module. Claims and remedies Cryptoassets • Issues in cryptoasset related civil claims—checklist—this Checklist identifies the key considerations for dispute resolution lawyers handling a claim involving cryptoassets Debt claims • Starting a contractual debt claim—checklist—this Checklist summaries the key factors to consider when pursuing a claim to recover a contractual debt • Responding to a contractual debt claim—checklist—this Checklist summaries the key factors to consider when defending a claim to recover a contractual debt • Appropriation of payments—flowchart—this Flowchart provides a structured approach to determining how payments made by a solvent debtor who owes multiple debts to the same creditor should be appropriated to those debts Misrepresentation and misstatement • Misrepresentation—tough questions for assessing a misrepresentation claim—checklist—this Checklist identifies the sort of questions that will need to be asked of the claimant at an early stage to help form a view of the strength (or weakness) of any claim...
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Model form of summary assessment order (child or protected party) [IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE [Chancery OR King’s Bench] SENIOR COURT COSTS OFFICE [insert location] District Registry] Claim No. [insert claim number] [insert name]        Claimant and [insert name]        Defendant _________________________________________ SUMMARY ASSESSMENT ORDER (CHILD OR PROTECTED PARTY) _________________________________________ On [date] before Costs Judge [name of costs judge] sitting in Court [number of court of
Schedule of costs—summary assessment When providing a schedule of costs for summary assessment, the information should be set out using Court Form: N260 Statement of Costs (Summary Assessment). Practical point: when completing form N260 (a link to the LexisSmart form is provided above), the HMCTS uses alphabetic characters for both the listing of fee earners and for fee earner grades which can make the schedule
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Are the parties required to complete Forms H in addition to statements of costs for summary assessment in advance of the hearing of an application for maintenance pending suit? The Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), SI 2010/2955, 9.27(1) provides that, ‘not less than one day before every hearing or appointment, each party must file with the court and serve on each other party an estimate of the costs incurred by that party up to the date of that hearing or appointment’. The only exception to this requirement is that a different form of statement of costs must be filed 14 days before the date fixed for a final hearing, which is not relevant to this situation (FPR 2010, SI 2010/2955,
A defendant has variously instructed new solicitors and is now progressing as a litigant in person with a direct access barrister. After each change, the defence has been changed with no formal applications being made to the court. What redress do I have in seeking costs occasioned by the amendments and as a penalty for effectively wasting the past two years? Amending a statement of case CPR 17.1 states that: ‘(1) A party may amend his statement of case at any time before it has been served on any other party. (2) If his statement of case has been served, a party may amend it only- (a) with the written consent of all the other parties; or (b) with the permission of the court.’ For further information on the approach a party should adopt when amending a statement of case, see Practice Note: Amending a statement of case—introduction. In particular, once a statement of case has been served, the permission of the court will be required...
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The minutes of the CPR Committee (CPRC) meeting of 6 December 2025 (conducted in a hybrid format at The Rolls Building (Royal Courts of Justice) and via video conference) cover a number of issues including Closed Material Procedure, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024, Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (SLAPP), the Online Procedure Rule Committee, the outcome of the Workplace Claims consultation, the Service Sub-Committee, the Lacuna Sub-Committee and the contents of the winter Statutory Instrument and Practice Direction update.
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