Bills & e-Bills
Precedent S electronic bills with clean phase coding and persuasive narratives that move numbers, ready for detailed assessment.
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Every phase,
recovered.
Drafting-only support for solicitor firms — no advocacy, no lay clients. We prepare DA-ready work product and run negotiations to settlement, on the standard basis only.
Core costs services
Points of Dispute & Replies
We target the usual cuts — rates, duplication, surveyor, bundles — and draft Replies that prove necessity and protect entitlement.
Precedent H / R / T Budgeting
Costs budgets with assumptions built to survive the CCMC, plus Precedent R variances and Precedent T applications.
N260s & Summary Assessment
Statements of costs for interim applications, with summary-assessment tactics and wording that lands first time.
Part 8 & Costs-Only (CPR 46.14)
Settled damages but costs outstanding? We run costs-only proceedings — N252, electronic bill and DA timetable.
Negotiation to Settlement
Staged Part 36 offers and settlement wording designed to recover every recoverable penny — or DA-ready papers if needed.
Sector strengths
Three arenas we know cold.
HDR
Housing Disrepair
Standard-basis recovery across the full HDR lifecycle — from pre-action conduct to detailed assessment.
Explore HDR costs →- ›Damp & mould claims
Awaab's Law breaches turned into recoverable costs.
- ›Access & vulnerability
Surveyor cycles and vulnerability factored into entitlement.
- ›ADR conduct
Protocol discipline and Part 36 timing that protect recovery.
- ›Pre-action & DCCs
CPR 47.9 Default Costs Certificates and the 21-day play.
NIHL
MoD NIHL
Military noise-induced hearing-loss claims, with matrix-aligned damages and full standard-basis costs.
Explore NIHL costs →- ›Service-records disclosure
Time properly captured and evidenced for recovery.
- ›Audiology & occ-hygiene experts
Expert cycles costed and defended at assessment.
- ›Matrix alignment
Damages on the matrix; costs on the standard basis.
- ›Costs-only routes
CPR 46.14 where damages settle but costs remain.
CLIN-NEG
Clinical Negligence
Outsourced clinical negligence costs — Precedent H budgeting through to bills, Precedent S and detailed assessment.
Explore Clin-Neg costs →- ›Precedent H budgeting
Assumptions and phasing built to survive the CCMC.
- ›Breach & causation work
Expert-heavy chronologies costed and justified line by line.
- ›Expert fee recovery
Multiple disciplines tied to the pleaded issues and settlement.
- ›Precedent S & assessment
Clean electronic bills aligned to the approved budget.
Try before you instruct
The first one is on us.
Send one live Housing Disrepair or MoD NIHL file. We'll draft the bill or e-Bill and run negotiations to settlement — no fees, no commitment. It's the simplest way to see the quality of our work product.
Send a file →Free TrialSettlement-led
01 First live file£0.00
02 Bill / e-Bill draftingIncluded
03PoDs & RepliesIncluded
04 Negotiation to settlementIncluded
Your cost£0.00
No fee
FAQ
The questions firms ask first.
No. DMD Costs is B2B only — we are instructed by solicitor firms and never act for tenants or lay clients. We provide drafting-only support; no advocacy.
We focus on standard-basis costs outside the Fixed Recoverable Costs regime — where careful drafting, proportionality arguments and negotiation make the biggest difference to recovery.
We aim to return a first-draft bill or e-Bill within 48 hours of receiving complete papers, so your fee-earners stay on the claim and cash flow improves.
Yes. Whether you need a single bill or ongoing overflow capacity, we deliver fast turnaround and DA-ready work product on each matter.
Yes — one live HDR or MoD NIHL file, drafted and negotiated to settlement, with no fee and no commitment. It's how most firms first meet us.
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Ready when you are
Outsource the costs. Keep the claim.
Talk to our team about a single bill, overflow capacity, or your first free file to settlement.