Phil Bingham started PJ Bingham & Co Ltd in 1985 having previously worked in litigation as a fee earner for 15 years. Melanie Bingham began working in costs at PJ Bingham & Co Ltd in 1994 and has plans to take the firm forward incorporating all the traditional and detailed knowledge that she has acquired in the last 25 years coupled with an interest and enthusiasm for the fast changing legal and technological landscape which the area of legal costs has become.
In the over 40 years since the firm was started we have been helping our clients to achieve maximum recoveries of their legal costs in all areas of litigation, from the Supreme Court (House of Lords), Judicial Review, Court of Appeal, all divisions of the High Court, various tribunals such as planning and employment, through to all levels of County Court actions.
In the over 40 years since the firm was started we have been helping our clients to achieve maximum recoveries of their legal costs in all areas of litigation, from the Supreme Court (House of Lords), Judicial Review, Court of Appeal, all divisions of the High Court, various tribunals such as planning and employment, through to all levels of County Court actions.
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Melanie has been working in costs since 1993. Melanie has many years experience in recovering and opposing costs claims in a wide range of legal areas. This includes all aspects of Bill preparation, negotiations and attendance on Detailed assessment. Clinical Negligence - cases ranging from lower level damages matters up to multi million pound cases with large initial lump sum awards and substantial indexed periodical payments.
Kevan commenced his legal career in the Treasury Solicitors Office (now the Government Legal Department) and after working in bona vacantia, admiralty, matrimonial and general litigation and on various public inquiries Kevan commenced costs work in 1983. Kevan subsequently worked for two prominent firms of solicitors in the City of London (Masons and Richards Butler - now Pinsent Masons and Reed Smith) before becoming freelance.
Before entering into costs drafting, Phil Bingham spent 15 years as a litigation fee earner with prestigious London firms of solicitors. He began drawing his own Bills of Costs whilst still working as a fee earner because he thought he could do better than the draftsmen instructed by the firm. He became a full time Costs Draftsman in 1981, forming his own Firm in 1985.
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