Specialist Barristers dealing with Costs
3PB’s Costs team offer specialist expertise across all issues relating to legal costs, both before and after the making of relevant costs orders, and across the full range of litigation the comes before civil courts and tribunals.
Members regularly attend the SCCO and the County Courts on both Detailed Assessment and Interlocutory Hearings relating to costs, as well as advising clients in writing and conference.
We cover a wide range of issues relating to costs, including:
- Advocacy and advice in all forms of inter partes costs disputes
- Costs budgeting, including attending Costs and Case Management Conferences (CCMCs)
- Security for costs
- Applications for costs orders, including wasted costs orders and non-party costs orders
- Appeals against interim and final costs orders
- Inter partes and trustee costs
- Applications to disapply Qualified One-Way Costs protection (QOCS)
- Advising on the costs of appeals in the High Court and the Court of Appeal
- Non-contentious advisory work
- Applications to set aside Default Costs Certificates
- Advising on and drafting Points of Dispute and Replies
- Representation at summary and detailed assessment of costs hearings
- Solicitor and client costs (including assessments under the Solicitors Act 1974).
For more information please call 0330 332 2633 or email us.
Our Costs Barristers...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings) breaks another record in the latest edition of Chambers and Partners with a total of 96 rankings (81 last year) achieved by 80 of its barristers. The national set is rewarded with accolades in 21 areas of law, in the London Bar as well as in the North Eastern, South Eastern, Western and Midlands Circuits and exceptional comments for its expertise and service delivery. Click here to view the full...
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3PB Barristers (3 Paper Buildings), one of the UK's largest chambers, is celebrating this year again its rankings - totalling 167 - in the Legal 500 2025’s edition published today, a 15% increase on last year’s 145. The set is ranked in 23 areas of law, across 4 UK Circuits: London, South Eastern, Western and the Midlands. 3PB’s barristers are also ranked in the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions. The Legal 500 acknowledges 3PB...
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3PB Barristers’ (3 Paper Buildings) expert commercial, costs and property law barrister Cheryl Jones and pupil barrister Jack Felvus have written on the relevance of Part 36 offers in the legal costs arising from probate litigation. In the article, Cheryl and Jack look at the recent case of Leonard v Leonard [2024], which revolved around a dispute between the late Mr Leonard’s children from his first marriage and his second wife, and the overturning of a second Will...
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3PB (3 Paper Buildings) are delighted to announce that Paul Joseph, a top costs and commercial litigation barrister, is joining the national chambers' Birmingham office from No 5 Chambers. Paul Joseph, who qualified as a solicitor in 1992 and the bar in 2005, began his career at Wragge and Co (now Gowling WLG) before spending nine years with the commercial litigation team at Edge Ellison (now Squire Patton Boggs) and four years with Truman Bodden...
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