Costs disclosure was not provided to the client meaning costs had to be assessed on a 'quantum meruit' basis. In addition, submissions were made on behalf of the client that the law firm had no entitlement to recover their costs. Notwithstanding this, the itemised Bill of Costs prepared by Rose Legal Costing, along with their accompanying submissions, secured a recovery of 84% of the...

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Rose Legal Costing were recently instructed on behalf of a law firm seeking to recover their costs from a client that had gone elsewhere and had refused to pay costs to the law firm. By the time of the assessment, the substantive case had reached a successful outcome.

He and his team worked behind the scenes, at my request, and made handling the sticky situation a breeze. Not only did he successfully defend our invoices, we also won the costs of the assessment based on the strength of his submissions.