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I was a litigant in person claimant in a multi-track case which I lost and so face costs. The other party failed to file a costs budget when required to do so and also refused many approaches to use ADR. I was hoping that these issues would help reduce costs, but I can't seem to get the court to consider either issue. I would be grateful for some pointers.
I stated these issues in my skeleton argument at trial, but the judge made no reference to them. I later made an application to raise the issues, but other than the court banking my cheque, there has been no response for several months. Detailed Assessment proceedings commenced and there is now judgement as to reasonableness and proportionality of costs. But despite me re-iterating my concerns about the above two points in my supporting arguments re proportionality etc, there is again no comment at all about them from the costs judge.
I guess the next step is that the receiving party will request a final costs certificate, since other than the above issues, costs are now established. I am just left a little baffled why the court would continuously ignore my requests for these issues to be taken into account, especially since case history and CPR seems to place high importance on both. Should I interpret that the court has dismissed my approaches without saying so, or should I interpret that I am not being heard?
Any help gratefully received.
CT
I stated these issues in my skeleton argument at trial, but the judge made no reference to them. I later made an application to raise the issues, but other than the court banking my cheque, there has been no response for several months. Detailed Assessment proceedings commenced and there is now judgement as to reasonableness and proportionality of costs. But despite me re-iterating my concerns about the above two points in my supporting arguments re proportionality etc, there is again no comment at all about them from the costs judge.
I guess the next step is that the receiving party will request a final costs certificate, since other than the above issues, costs are now established. I am just left a little baffled why the court would continuously ignore my requests for these issues to be taken into account, especially since case history and CPR seems to place high importance on both. Should I interpret that the court has dismissed my approaches without saying so, or should I interpret that I am not being heard?
Any help gratefully received.
CT
