Time & Billing

Justice Thomas Bradley, appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2018, will soon trial a novel approach in his court. He will decide costs within the one hearing.

The new chapter “Costs in Criminal Proceedings” in Quick on Costs by author Roger Quick seeks to explain the practices as to costs in criminal work, on which there is a dearth in professional and academic writing.

In response to the two-staged approach to the costs assessment mechanisms recommended by the Supreme Court of Victoria and the County Court of Victoria’s Report on Litigious Costs (the Report), the Courts published a welcome Consultation Paper (the Paper) on the Stage 1 Implementation...

This article discusses the contemporary difficulties with agreements as to costs including the intricacies of the statutory frameworks regulating their validity, and compounding and accelerating difficulties with the ACL.