David Hughes

Senior Associate Costs Manager

David regularly works on large bills of costs, and costs budgets ranging from £500,000 up to and in excess of £1,000,000, progressing these matters to detailed assessment where required. He prepares bills of costs, costs budgets, and assists with the recovery of costs for the teams. David has worked in costs since 2013 and qualified as a costs lawyer in 2017 with a specialism in personal injury and commercial costs. He then developed his experience into high value personal injury and clinical negligence work and has significant knowledge in this specialism. David joined Lanyon Bowdler in March 2022 as a costs manager for the Clinical Negligence and Personal Injury Team where he leads the in-house Costs Department. In June 2025 David was promoted to senior associate costs manager.