Wagatha Costie And The Detailed Assessment

It is a rare day when the question of legal costs becomes entangled with celebrity and bursts into the public consciousness. Stays at Nobu! Ransacking mini-bars! Triples all round! The latter at least in respect of legal costs, expanding from the budgeted £540,779 to the incurred £1.8m. For those of us familiar with seeing peoples' eyes glaze over before we have got to the end of the phrase "costs subject to detailed assessment if not agreed", the latest instalment in the Wagatha Christie libel trial between famous footballing consorts Colleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy is heart-warming. We are delighted to be able to gift to the wider world notions of costs budgets, line-by-line assessments, and if there was a good reason to depart (beyond that night's menu at Nobu).