Outsourced Legal Costs

Specialist inter-partes costs support for law firms and private clients across England and Wales

Ison Harrison Solicitors provides specialist legal costs services to fee earners, solicitors, and private clients. Our experienced Costs Lawyers and Costs Draftsmen manage the detailed assessment, drafting, and negotiation of costs across major practice areas, including personal injury, clinical negligence, commercial litigation, housing disrepair, and contested probate.

We prepare accurate bills of costs, points of dispute, replies, costs budgets, and schedules, ensuring compliance with the Civil Procedure Rules and maximising reasonable recovery. Whether acting for receiving or paying parties, we offer strategic advice, skilled negotiation, and representation before the Court to protect financial interests and secure favourable outcomes.

Our team handles both Claimant and Defendant work, giving us strong commercial awareness and the ability to anticipate and manage risk effectively.

A trusted outsourced costs partner

Our service is designed to reduce internal pressure, minimise risk, and improve recovery without compromising quality. We work flexibly, offering overflow support, specialist technical input, or a fully outsourced costs function, and integrate seamlessly with existing systems and processes.

Our outsourced legal costs services

Personal injury costs: Comprehensive support for multi-track and fixed-cost disputes, with expertise in high-value matters and enhanced hourly rates.

Clinical negligence costs: Technical expertise in complex, high-value claims, ensuring costs strategy aligns with litigation risk and client objectives.

Housing disrepair costs: Extensive experience acting for local authorities, including defended claims and issues such as mis-certification and exaggerated bills.

Commercial litigation and contested probate: Wide-ranging experience supported by strong knowledge of case law and effective costs arguments.

Core services

• Preparation of detailed, electronic, and traditional bills of costs.
• Drafting and negotiation of costs budgets and Precedent H/R forms, plus assistance with CCMCs.
• Preparation of robust points of dispute and replies.
• Strategic advice on proportionality, hourly rates, conduct, and CPR compliance.
• Skilled negotiation to achieve settlement without detailed assessment.
• Representation at Court before Costs Judges and the Senior Courts Costs Office.

In high-value or technically complex costs litigation, we deliver precise, commercially informed support to secure strong outcomes for both receiving and paying parties.

Speak to our Costs Team

For an initial, no-obligation discussion about how we can support your firm, please contact the Ison Harrison Costs Team.

• Call: 0113 384500
• Email: costs@isonharrison.co.uk

Our Commitment to You

We pride ourselves on our commercial and realistic approach along with our technical knowledge and passionate tenacity to obtain a good result.

We achieve your targets at a proportionate cost and work with you to exceed your expectations. As part of a long-established legal practice, we are regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority and therefore qualified to deal with all relevant procedural steps.

It’s the little attention to detail that sets us apart from the rest. Whether it is asking Counsel for a reduction to reflect any reduction in profit costs or challenging unfair disbursements on your behalf; we will go the extra mile to assist. We are as interested in your bottom line as you are, it is this that truly sets us apart from most independent costs companies.

We are confident that if you trust us to deal with costs on your behalf on a case, you will keep instructing us in the future. Some of our current clients have been instructing us for a period in excess of ten years.

We can provide you with a variety of services, including negotiations, litigation and recovery, in a streamlined economic and professional manner.