Paragon Costs Solutions

Firm Overview:
Paragon Costs has developed a reputation for dealing with high-value and complex commercial disputes. This built on its historic reputation for dealing with high value and complex PI and Clinical Negligence work.

Their clients include many of the the top 200 law firms. The firm also work with regional heavyweights and niche specialists. Paragon has been instructed by many local authorities and two international banks. The firm also have a long-stand relationship with a large insurer undertaking audits of the work undertaken by panel legal firms. Paragon receives instructions from law firms outside of the UK including Israel, Romania and Jersey.

The firm's client base is predominantly in London and the South West, albeit many of their clients are nationwide.

The firm's services focus around Costs Management and Detailed Assessment. Clients instruct the firm because they have a wealth of experience and they provide a full suite of services, to include advocacy. The firm are regularly instructed to advocate at CMCs and Detailed Assessments. Paragon Costs Solutions are complemented for being thorough, persuasive and approachable.

Examples of the firm's high-profile work where they have been instructed to deal with the costs issues include:
·Micula & Ors v Romania [2020] UKSC 5 (19 February 2020).
·Cardiff City Football Club Ltd v Michael Isaac (unreported) 2020.
·Chudley & Ors v Clydesdale Bank Plc (t/a Yorkshire Bank) [2019] EWCA Civ 344 (06 March 2019) #
·Takhar v Gracefield Developments Ltd & Ors [2019] UKSC 13 (20 March 2019)
·Icescape Ltd v Ice-World International BV & Ors [2018] EWCA Civ 2219 (10 October 2018)
· Matchmove Ltd v Dowding & Anor [2016] EWCA Civ 1233 (07 December 2016)
·Roberts v Swangrove Estates Ltd & Anor [2007] EWHC 513 (Ch) (14 March 2007).
·Bocacina Ltd v Boca Cafes Ltd & Ors [2014] EWHC 26 (IPEC) (20 December 2013)
·Stadium Capital Holdings (No.2) Ltd v St Marylebone Property Company & Anor [2011] EWHC 2856 (Ch) (08 November 2011)

The firm are instructed to deal with costs arising from professional negligence, shareholder disputes, intellectual property disputes, subrogated and property damage claims, boundary disputes, landlord and tenant disputes, planning disputes, construction disputes, consumer claims and misselling, fraud and general contractual disputes. The firm continue to deal with a small amount of high-value PI and Clinical Negligence.

In any given year the firm  would conduct approximately 10 detailed assessments, 25 CCMCs and around 30 Provisional Assessments. They have over 50 active clients and 250 active cases.

Paragon Costs Solutions also work with a number of specialist firms dealing with Deputyship matters and they submit around 100 bills each year to the SCCO for assessment. The firm have a small team dedicated to this specialist work.