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Philip Eyre delivers keynote address on Jackson Civil Costs Review

Construction Partner Philip Eyre delivered a keynote address at the AGM of the East Anglia Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in Cambridge on the evening of 22nd April 2010, providing a short overview of the central themes of the Lord Justice Jackson Civil Litigation Costs Review Final Report. The talk emphasised the need for greater training for practitioners and Judges for the development of skills in litigation case Costs Management. Philip drew parallels with the skills typically deployed by Chartered Quantity Surveyors in the management of construction projects. He also speculated about how Costs Management would work in practice and suggested  that costs management might operate as a form of "costs capping".

 

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