Morning programme - Open to both APIL members and non-members (8am - 12noon)

We are honored to welcome The Right Honourable Lord Justice Birss to the Marriott Regents Park Hotel, London to give the keynote address at this exclusive in-person event. 

A number of highly regarded key stakeholders will also join the platforrm to discuss the theory of fixed costs, how the Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime will work and what the future holds.  

8am          Keynote address by The Right Honourable Lord Justice Birss

8.30am     Refreshments

9.00am     Panel session: Fixed costs principles

10.05am    Panel session: The impact of extended fixed costs for claimants and defendants

11.10am    Panel session: The future

12noon    Networking lunch

Afternoon session - APIL members only (1pm - 4.15pm):

The afternoon session will offer tips and tactics on The New Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime including:

• Background to and October 2023 CPR changes
• Issues and APIL response
• The Judicial Review:
  • Inquest 
  • Restoration of companies
  • Clinical negligence
  • Contracting out
  • Vulnerability
• April 2024 amendments to the CPR
• Timescale for application of the new rules to personal injury claims
• The new tracks and the significance including:
  • Costs
  • Case management
  • Scope of disclosure
  • Extent of factual evidence
  • Format of expert evidence
• Practicalities and tactics:
  • Assessing the case at the outset
  • Engaging with the defendant
  • Predicting/agreeing allocation and costs regime
  • Dealing with the case accordingly (by both sides)
  • Letter of claim content
  • Defendant tactics and counter tactics
• ADR:
  • General approach
  • Use of Part 36 offers
  • Use of non-Part 36 offers
  • Options for ADR generally
• Dealing with the court:
  • Issue 
  • Preparing for allocation and assignment
  • The prospect of reallocation