The costs team at
18 St John Street Chambers houses
Gemma McGungle, who is frequently instructed by both paying and receiving parties - she is acting for the solicitors in Menzies v Oakwood, which has received rare permission to apply to the Supreme Court and has the potential to change how solicitors get paid.
James Miller practices exclusively in costs law, and he represented the solicitors in Higgins v Esure, a case concerning recoverability of an expert’s fee in a fixed costs case, in which the expert described himself as a spinal surgeon, and Miller successfully argued he was an orthopaedic surgeon, thus reducing the costs.