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Fixed recoverable costs calculator.
RTA, EL/PL and noise-induced hearing loss, across the OIC and portal routes and the fast and intermediate tracks. It gives you a defensible starting figure and shows its working.
PD45 Tables of Fixed Costs (2024) · CPR Part 45 as amended to 6 April 2026
Where the figures come from
Practice Direction 45 — Tables of Fixed Costs (2024), justice.gov.uk, updated 28 March 2024: Tables 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17. CPR Part 45 as substituted on 1 October 2023 and amended to 6 April 2026, legislation.gov.uk. CPR Part 36 rules 36.23 and 36.24. CPR 27.14 and Practice Direction 27B for the small claims track. The Untraced Drivers Agreement dated 28 February 2017, clause 21, mib.org.uk. Tables 6B, 6C and 6D as they stood before 1 October 2023 for accidents predating that date, under the former CPR 45.29C and 45.29E. The Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury (Employers’ Liability and Public Liability) Claims. Complexity bands under CPR 26.15 for the fast track and CPR 26.16 for the intermediate track.
Why there is no London weighting
CPR 45.3 has two limbs, and both must be satisfied: the receiving party lives, works or carries on business in an area listed in Section II of PD45, and instructs a legal representative with conduct of the litigation who practises in one of those areas. The listed areas are served by the county court hearing centres at Barnet, Brentford, Central London, Clerkenwell and Shoreditch, Edmonton, Ilford, Mayors and City of London, Romford, Wandsworth, Willesden, Bromley, Croydon, Dartford and Uxbridge. Where the representative with conduct of the litigation does not practise in one of those areas, the second limb cannot be met and the 12.5% is not available. There is no control for it here. If conduct sits in a listed area, or the file is run through London agents, the uplift needs to be considered separately.
What this does not do
It covers road traffic claims, employers’ and public liability claims, and noise induced hearing loss. It does not cover mesothelioma or asbestos lung disease, which CPR 26.9(10)(a) sends to the multi-track where there are no fixed costs at all. It does not decide the complexity band or the track for you, does not model counterclaims beyond CPR 45.7(3), and does not attempt the 2003 Untraced Agreement. It gives you a defensible starting figure and shows its working; it does not replace a costs draftsman on a contested assessment.
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