Kevin Latham

Practice:

Costs
Personal Injury

Profile:

In the short period of time that he has been practising, Kevin has gained a good  understanding of the law and practice of costs. He now practises almost exclusively in that discipline, and is well regarded as being a safe pair of hands. He acts for both paying and receiving parties, both at detailed assessments and appeals.

Having previously worked for a Manchester firm of costs draftsmen and in-house at a national firm of solicitors, he is able to understand client’s needs in every aspect of costs litigation. Kevin has experience of drafting all forms of costs pleadings, including (unusually for counsel) bills of costs. His particular interest is technical arguments concerning the recoverability of costs.

Kevin understands the importance of continuing professional development. He maintains a strong interest in the ever developing case law surrounding conditional fee agreements and the intricacies of the fixed costs regimes. He intends to begin the Modular Training Course of the Association of Law Costs Draftsmen in April 2010; if all goes well, he ought to become dually qualified (that is, counsel and costs draftsman) in late 2012.

Kevin has experience of types of litigation other than costs, including catastrophic injury, industrial disease, employers’ liability, public liability and occupier’s liability. Kevin has experience in road traffic accidents where fraud is alleged, and he has developed a keen interest in cases involving alleged staged accidents and phantom passengers.

Memberships:

Northern Circuit

 

Career and Education

University:

   

 

Year of Call: 

 

Joined Chambers:

LLB Law Degree (Hons): II University of Hull

Bar Vocational Court (very competent) Manchester Metropolitan University

 

2007

 

2010 

 

 

Kevin Latham

 

Year of Call:  2007

Specialises in:  

Costs
Personal Injury

Clerked By:   Paul Clarke  

 

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