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Stephen Warne on professional negligence, regulation and discipline around the world penalties, and criminal offences punishable by fines and jail.  The civil penalty provisions are new to the LPUL compared with the previous legislation.  What does it all mean? Continue reading “Bog-ordinary, disciplinary, civil penalty, criminal” I was asked to talk to my colleagues at the Victorian Bar recently in relation to costs recovery in pro bono cases. It is now more certain that costs may be recovered from the other side by victorious litigants who engage their lawyers on the basis of a greater variety of pro bono arrangements. That is as a result of both recent developments in the judge-made law and changes to the Supreme and County Courts’ rules. Over the last few days, I published parts one and two of the paper I distributed. What follows is the third and final part, which considers different kinds of client-favourable costs agreements (some quite esoteric) and an*lyses their indemnity principle implications.  It also provides some thoughts on how to draft costs agreements for work done otherwise than on a purely Options available to lawyers who wish to do work at less than their usual rates for non-commercial reasons include: (b) charging your usual rates and leaving it to your discretion whether you send out a bill, or whether you forgive some or all bills given in the event that certain outcomes obtain;promising to do the work for free; I was asked to talk to my colleagues at the Victorian Bar recently in relation to costs recovery in pro bono cases. It is now more certain that costs may be recovered from the other side by victorious litigants who engage their lawyers in a greater variety of pro bono bases. That is as a result of both recent developments in the judge-made law and changes to the Supreme and County Courts’ rules. Over the next few days, I will publish, in digestible chunks, the paper I distributed. What follows is the second part. Part one of this