Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting - The Latest Update for Personal Injury Lawyers

Introduction

All practitioners dealing with claims involving personal injury need to be aware of the rules around QOCS, particularly the important distinction between those claims that fall within the scope of changes made by the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 and those that do not.

This webinar will assume that you are broadly familiar with the QOCS scheme.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• The significant changes made by the Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023 and what they mean for you
• Mixed cases - what happens when your personal injury claim is struck out but the balance of it proceeds?
• Mixed cases - the question of who benefits
• Is it appropriate to disapply QOCS on discontinuance of the claim?
• What period does QOCS apply to where a personal injury claim is introduced part way through the proceedings?
• Can you lose the protection of QOCS where a Part 36 offer is accepted out of time?
• Does QOCS apply where a party is legally aided?
• Can you bypass QOCS and seek a third-party costs order against the receiving party’s solicitors in detailed assessment proceedings?

This pre-recorded webinar will be streamed at 12:30pm on Wednesday 29th May 2024 and will remain available to view by delegates who have registered by then for 90 days.