Costs draftsman Kent.

Our legal costs team is made up of Costs Lawyers, costs paralegals and law costs draftsmen, offering a range of costs drafting services. A Costs Lawyer has input into every drafting instruction, helping connect the preparation of the document with advice on entitlement, procedure and the issues likely to arise in negotiation or assessment.

That oversight is a practical advantage: questions about the retainer, a costs order or a budgeting assumption can be addressed while the document is being prepared, rather than left until an opponent challenges it. Our Costs Lawyers are individually regulated by the Costs Lawyers Standards Board (CLSB). Paralegals and law costs draftsmen work within the team; those job titles do not themselves confer CLSB regulation or a Costs Lawyer’s authorisation.

Kent firms instruct us for bills of costs, costs budgets, points of dispute, replies and statements of costs for summary assessment. Matters include personal injury, clinical negligence, housing, professional negligence and commercial claims, from modest files to complex multi-party bills.

Kent is within easy reach of our London office, so meetings to review a file or discuss a group of matters can be arranged without difficulty. Day-to-day work runs remotely through secure file sharing, so progress does not depend on a visit.

The strongest bills start with the right questions. We review the orders, retainer, funding documents and any budget before drafting, and identify issues such as a success fee that may not be recoverable, work outside the scope of the order or time spent by several fee earners on the same task.

Those points are raised with the fee earner in one organised note. Resolving them before service keeps the bill consistent and reduces the room for argument when points of dispute arrive.

For receiving parties, we draft clear bills and evidence-based replies to points of dispute. For paying parties, we prepare targeted challenges on rates, proportionality and duplication, measured against any approved budget, so you can see the realistic range of outcomes.

Because a Costs Lawyer is involved from the start, advice on negotiation, Part 36 offers and detailed assessment proceedings follows directly from the drafting. Representation at a hearing can be discussed separately where a matter does not settle.

Kent claims may be heard at the Maidstone or Canterbury Combined Court Centres, at other county court hearing centres or in London, and detailed assessment can take place regionally or at the Senior Courts Costs Office. We confirm the forum and route early so that timetables, provisional assessment and hearing preparation are handled correctly.

Where a matter falls within fixed recoverable costs, or a fixed-fee regime applies, we explain that before drafting rather than preparing a full itemised bill that cannot be recovered. For conventional bills, we identify the likely points of challenge and deal with them in the narrative and supporting evidence.

Our Costs Lawyers remain responsible for the advice behind every document, so work prepared by paralegals and law costs draftsmen still carries a qualified view on recovery and risk.

Let us know the deadline, any hearing date and who will approve the draft. We confirm scope, fees and timetable before starting and track CPR 47 time limits for you, flagging early if any document needed for the bill appears to be missing.