CostsMaster

Current CostsMaster 2 Release version: 2.7.20

What version do I have?

Current CostsMaster 2 Beta version: n/a

Current CostsMaster 3 Release version: 3.2.45

Current CostsMaster 3 Beta version: n/a

Access violation when entering a value greater than 255 in the boxes on the Colour Selector Window.

3.2.45

Edit window not opening automatically when inserting an item in multi-select mode.

3.2.45

Cutting a Part that has other parts using its rates results in multiple part rates in the resulting part

3.2.42

Serious errors when copying and pasting bills and parts where duplicate linked items would be created making the file unstable.

3.2.41

Default Back sheet presets sometimes not being created when importing presets from CM2.

3.2.40

Work sometimes being lost when merging fee earners or counsel.

3.2.38

Newly entered narrative text is sometimes lost when the user clicks on another running application and a background process in CostsMaster causes the Narrative window to refresh before the user clicks back on CostsMaster.

3.2.37

Error when merging Counsel

3.2.37

Access violation when accessing a control on the Bill Settings window when no bill is created.

3.2.37

Various issues with scroll bars in grids.

3.2.36

Narrative detail getting lost when using a party shortcut after typing in the narrative window.

3.2.35

Access violation in certain circumstances when opening a window containing a grid and a different window containing a grid was previously active.

3.2.35

When a fee earner or category is excluded, the value of the routine items assigned to that fee earner or category still showed in the control centre.

3.2.34

"In The Matter Of" appearing on front sheet when there is no matter defined in the case details window.

3.2.34

Values for Header Row Height etc. in the Export Templates window not being saved when the window was closed.

3.2.33

Procedural Step Descriptions in the exported bill not including the brief description if the full description is blank.

3.2.33

Removing all tabs from the narrative window still caused the narrative to be displayed but any changes made were lost when the window was closed.

3.2.33

Changing the font in the Grid Settings Window did not apply the font to the grid.

3.2.33

Heading for exported bill columns appearing when the option for lines is set to None.

3.2.33

Using the arrow keys to navigate the grid causes the cursor to jump by two columns or rows

3.1.37

When the Control Centre Option to set additional info automatically where the description is not blank, the additional info was not set for party attendances.

3.1.36

When entering the first date in a grid and no year is given the program sometimes assumes a date in the future.

3.1.36

The boxes for selecting whether the case is exceptional could not be ticked in the exported form

2.7.20

Disbursements exported to a 6 column lined bill or a 4 column criminal lined bill could, depending on the length of their description, cause the amounts to be tabbed over by an extra column.

2.7.20

Edit the word document to remove one tab stop prior to the amounts in the columns.

The reference to the VAT Act on the non-CLS front & back sheet template refers to the 1983 Act rather than the 1994 Act.

2.7.20

Changing from CLAIM1 to CLAIM1A and vice versa did not alter the answer or Costs of All Providers / Other Providers acted to match the inverted logic of the question.

2.7.19

Option to not show summaries for blank disbursements still results in the CLAIM1 & CLAIM1A showing the disbursement total.

2.7.18

Routine enhancement is erroneously claimed on the costs of assessment in the CLS schedule when enhancement is disabled

2.7.18

Enable enhancement, set the routine enhancement to zero, then disable enhancement again.

When printing the CLAIM1A v3 template, some printers cut off the extreme left hand side of pages 4 and 10.

2.7.15

When accessing the party work windows after deleting all parts, the program fails to detect the lack of parts and attempts to open windows for work which does not exist leading to error messages and a crash.

2.7.15

Disbursements failing to appear on addendum pages of a CLAIM1 /CLAIM1A where the first item that would have appeared on the addendum page occupies more than one line.

2.7.14

VAT on Counsel's success fees on breakdown of inter partes costs being calculated at the part VAT rate rather than the rate specified for the Counsel's success fee.

2.7.13

The last word of a sentence is occasionally lost from the additional information column of the CLAIM1 v12 and CLAIM1A v3

2.7.12

The problem is caused because the width of the line in the additional information table is slightly less in the v12 form. Adding some spaces to the end of the word should get it to export properly.

CostsMaster hangs on export in the extremely rare condition when exporting a disbursement that has a description containing a single word with 63 or more characters.

2.7.9

Disbursements with text longer than can fit in the description column in the disbursements schedule in the CLAIM1 / CLAIM1A have part of their text omitted from the schedule

2.7.9

Disbursements that do not attract VAT are omitted from the page 7 schedule of disbursements in the CLAIM1A v3 (but are included in the totals)

2.7.6

Party extra attendances may not export to the bill if there is just one attendance for a party and it doesn't have a description

2.7.5

Add a description (a double space will suffice).

Deleting a fee earner can in some cases result in the the fee earners in Summary Assessment Schedules becoming mis-assigned

2.7.4

Manually reassign the fee earners in the the Summary Assessment Schedules window.

When clicking the purchase button in order to generate an order form an error message is encountered and the process does not complete.

2.6.77

Success fee disbursements being included in the breakdown of costs when the success fee had been disabled.

2.6.74

VAT is not being claimed on disbursements in the breakdown of costs when VAT was set to 0%

2.6.74

Error exporting to Word using a default category of fee earner when you have a procedural step linked to a summary assessment item that has been assessed

2.6.73

Export without the default category of fee earner.

When generating the order form the program calculates VAT at 15%

2.6.72

Deleting an individual enhancement item in the enhancement window when there are two or more such items causes the lists of fee earner enhancement and party enhancement to be doubled up.

2.6.70

Close and re-open the enhancement window

In fixed fee CLAIM1As the Costs Draftsman's fee at a percentage is calculated on the net profit costs in the view totals window (but is correctly calculated on the advocacy on export).

2.6.68

VAT being calculated at the rate for the last part in a fixed fee CLAIM1A on the Advocacy Costs (page 3) instead of at the rate applicable to the individual parts.

2.6.68

Where the costs of assessment section has one attendance with no enhancement and no CLS schedule is produced the "totals" for that section are erroneously displayed after the single line item. The total carried forward is not affected.

2.6.66

Delete the offending line in word.

Routine enhancement is not claimed on costs of assessment attendances in the CLS schedule

2.6.64

The totals on the CLS schedule do not appear when the CLS schedule is exported on its own.

2.6.64

When completing a CLAIM1 or CLAIM1A for assessed costs the number of counsel is not recorded on page 7/8 when two or more Counsel's accounts are created

2.6.63

Type the number into the exported form.

Procedural step disbursements are omitted from CLAIM1s and CLAIM1As if the procedural step is an attendance and the fee earner used is not assigned to a category.

2.6.62

The fixed fee calculation does not work properly for assessed CLAIM1As

2.6.60

Summaries in CLAIM1s not being completed where there is a blank disbursement but the option to mark blank disbursements or leave blank summaries is not ticked.

2.6.54

Error exporting to word for single part 6 column bills where the option to show totals on the CLS schedule is on, the option to not show summaries for totals awaiting a disbursement is on and there is at least one blank disbursement.

2.6.52

Turn off the option to not show summaries for totals awaiting a disbursement and manually delete any totals that are awaiting a disbursement prior to printing.

VAT on advocacy costs for a fixed fee CLAIM1A is not included in the page 3 total but is included in the totals on page 8

2.6.50

On fixed fee CLAIM1As the VAT is slightly out as a result of rounding

2.6.50

The first cell in the costs of assessment window doesn't get selected until a short time after the window is opened

2.6.48

On a CLAIM1 the figure labeled"GRAND TOTAL" on page 7 is incorrect where the fixed fee on the CLAIM1A settings page is greater than 0 and the figures are such that if it were a CLAIM1A it would be a fixed fee case.

2.6.46

In the CLAIM1 Settings window change the form to a CLAIM1A, set the fixed fee to 0.00 then change the form back to a CLAIM1.

VAT on the fixed fee appears twice in the Total VAT box on page 3 of a CLAIM1A but is correctly shown on page 8.

2.6.44

Contract rows function on grids reduces row heights to a size that does not take into account an increased font size

2.6.45

Grids become uneditable when a grid font is set to a size greater than 12

2.6.45

Do not use a font size larger than 12 for the grids.

Menus sometimes appear slowly under some versions of Windows Vista

2.6.41

Program crashes on startup when the default load/save directory has become corrupted and cannot be created

2.6.45

Contact support for details of how to edit your settings file manually.

Justification for instructing Counsel in the FPC not appearing in CLAIM1As

2.6.40

VAT on costs of assessment timed items being omitted from the CLS schedule total where the last item in the timed list is not inter partes

2.6.32

The narrative window is limited to 65536 characters

2.6.26

It is not possible to export a CLAIM1 for costs assessed by the COurt without first creating a part and fee earner

2.6.26

Counsel's account information does not appear when exporting a CLAIM1 for costs assessed by the Court

2.6.17