Costs are often treated as the untidy debris left at the end of litigation.
That can be an expensive mistake.
Costs can often decide whether a case is worth bringing, defending, funding, settling or appealing. A defective retainer can undo good work. A funding agreement can become the battleground. A non-party costs application can move the risk to the person standing behind the litigation.
I am Andrew Hogan, a specialist costs and litigation funding barrister at Hailsham Chambers.
I advise and appear in disputes about retainers, solicitor-client costs, commercial costs, litigation funding, non-party costs, wasted costs and costs mediation.
Band 1 Costs Litigation | Nearly 30 years at the Bar | Hailsham Chambers | Court of Appeal and High Court experience
“An excellent, thoughtful and effective advocate who is measured and careful.”
Chambers UK
How I can help
Your retainer is under challenge, or needs review before use
I advise on CFAs, DBAs, client care letters, success fees, deductions from damages and funding documents. The best time to fix a retainer problem is before it is used.
A client has challenged your bill, success fee or deduction from damages
I advise and appear in Solicitors Act assessments, retainer disputes, challenges to bills, success fees and deductions from damages. These disputes need law, but also judgment.
The costs of commercial litigation may alter the real value of the case
I advise on costs budgeting, detailed assessment, Part 36, indemnity costs, issue-based orders, appeals and consequential hearings. Costs are not an afterthought where they change the economics of the litigation.
A funding agreement, CFA, DBA or ATE structure needs scrutiny
I advise on litigation funding agreements, CFAs, DBAs, ATE insurance, security for costs, group litigation and challenges to funding structures. Funding can support litigation. It can also become the litigation.
You are considering, or facing, a non-party or wasted costs application
I advise applicants and respondents where costs risk may move beyond the named parties, or where lawyers face personal costs allegations. These are serious applications. They need evidence, timing and restraint.
Why instruct me?
I have practised at the Bar since 1996. I now practise principally in legal costs and litigation funding.
My work includes retainers, solicitor-client costs, detailed assessment, commercial costs, litigation funding, Part 36, QOCS, non-party costs, wasted costs and costs mediation.
I appear in the County Court, High Court, Senior Courts Costs Office and Court of Appeal. I am ranked Band 1 for Costs Litigation.
I also write extensively about costs and litigation funding. The articles on this site are intended to explain difficult law in practical language. Not because the law is simple. It is not. But because obscurity rarely helps anyone.
Need advice on a costs or funding issue?
If you need advice, drafting, advocacy or mediation in a costs or litigation funding matter, please contact my clerks at Hailsham Chambers.
For urgent matters, please identify the hearing date, assessment date, appeal deadline or other time-sensitive point at the start.