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In brief: Revising a cost budget after CPR 3.14 bites (Asghar v Bhatti)

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Published on: 14 July 2017

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Dispute Resolution analysis: Christopher Snell, barrister at No5 Chambers considers the case Asghar v Bhatti. This was a case concerning an application to revise a cost budget following an increase in the trial time estimate from the original six days to 12 days. The claimants failed to file their original cost budgets on time, and thus were sanctioned such that their budgets were limited to applicable court fees. Following the increase in the trial timetable, the claimants applied to revise their costs budgets in respect of the increased time estimate. Those revisions were allowed. On appeal, objection was taken on the basis that such revisions usurped the sanction applied for the original failure to file budgets on time. That appeal was dismissed.

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