Law Costs Excellence
KB Legal Costs Services Limited offer the full range of legal costs advice from advocacy to drafting bills, which comes with the assurance that years of experience underpin all that we do.
The 2027 publication of the internationally respected Legal 500 ranked KB Legal Costs Services Limited for another year as a top performing firms of costs lawyers. Its summary is below:
Commercial litigation, insurance cases, catastrophic injuries, matrimonial costs and contentious trusts and probate matters sit at the core of KB Legal Costs Services Limited‘s practice. Leading the team, Keith Bintley has developed particular experience in solicitor-client disputes, commercial litigation and international claims. Fellow practice head John Ivory focuses on commercial and insurance litigation, catastrophic injury, medical malpractice and private client costs matters. Rounding out the team, Natalie Hounslow brings costs litigation and advocacy experience, with a focus on industrial disease claims and negotiating costs settlements, while Lianne Nice is well-versed in personal injury and clinical negligence work, including the preparation of bills of costs.
Our Services
The services we provide range from dealing with routine enquiries to advising on technical points of costs law and attending at contested hearings from county courts to the Supreme Court.
We maintain regular email and telephone contact, so advice is usually only moments away.
Latest Insights
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Legal 500 2027
We are pleased to announce that once again the Legal 500 has ranked KB Legal Costs Services Ltd in its latest national survey of top performing firms of costs lawyers. …
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Testimonial
After representing ourselves as litigants in person and inadvertently losing our costs protection at trial, we were faced with a substantial costs bill despite achieving a favourable outcome at court. …
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New Guideline Hourly rates effective from 1 January 2026
New Guideline Hourly Rates have been published to take effect from 1 January 2026. The increases of 2.28% above the 2025 rates are based on the SPPI Index. The uplifted …
‘Keith and his team are outstanding when it comes to bill preparation. Their attention to detail is superb, and they are highly acclaimed negotiators, able to make points succinctly and achieve good results in terms of bill recovery. Keith Bintley in particular is extremely proactive and pushes defendants to the very limit in negotiations. He is an experienced advocate and so is able to deal with most detailed assessment hearings himself.’
