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Monday 14th March 2005
Deputy Costs Judge Jennifer James to join Kain Knight
Deputy Costs Judge at the Supreme Court Costs Office, Jennifer James, has been retained as a Consultant by Law Costs Specialists Kain Knight to undertake costs work with the firm.
Jennifer studied law at Lancaster and Edinburgh Universities before taking her Law Society Finals in Manchester. She then trained for two years with a firm in Cheshire, before qualifying as a Solicitor in September 1992. Her post-qualification experience has been exclusively in the field of legal costs, including four years with a niche Clinical Negligence Legal Aid practice in the North of England and six and a half years with a generalist, mainly private litigation, firm in London. She has undertaken Claimant and Defendant work ranging from small cases in County Courts up and down the country, to cases in the High Court, Court of Appeal, Privy Council and House of Lords and has worked on several large multi-party actions including Myodil and Factortame, from the costs perspective.
Jennifer was made an Honorary Member of the ABA (Young Lawyers' Division) in 2001, for services to the International Bar and was appointed a Deputy Costs Judge and Deputy District Judge in 2002. Since then she has undertaken regular sittings hearing a variety of cases and handing down Judgements thereon. She is the youngest-ever person to be appointed a Deputy Costs Judge, and only the second woman in the long history of the Supreme Court Costs Office.
In 2003, Jennifer left private practice in order to devote more time to her judicial commitments and to concentrate on her writing as a regular columnist for the New Law Journal.
Jennifer was involved in the Young Solicitors Group for several years, and has attended many American Bar Association meetings. In 2003, she successfully attempted the New York State Bar examinations and it is her ambition to travel to the United States in the future and work within their costs system.
Kain Knight Chairman Michael Kain commented: “We are delighted that Jennifer has agreed to join us. Her knowledge and experience of costs matters is extensive and her significant achievements in this field speak for themselves. She will be an asset both to the firm and to our clients, and we are very much looking forward to working with her”.
Jennifer added: “I am very pleased to be associated with a firm of the calibre of Kain Knight, and I hope to bring a new perspective on costs issues to its clients as part of the established team there.”
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