Meet our team

Patrick Rabbitte

Director

Patrick is a skilled Costs Lawyer with over 25 years’ experience in the industry. As a Costs Lawyer, he is regulated by the Costs Lawyer Standards Board and is a member of the Association of Costs Lawyers.

He specialises in all civil matters and is often involved in drawing complex clinical negligence and Brain Injury cases, attending Detailed Assessment hearings and undertaking settlement negotiations. Over the last couple of years, he also has been involved in preparing Costs Budgets. He is responsible for staff training in respect of civil matters.

He enjoys both playing and watching most sports.

Elaine Betts

Cost Draftsman

Elaine has worked for Dickinson & Rabbitte as a Cost Draftsman since 1996, and has the flexibility of being able to cost any type of case.

She specialises in between the parties PI cases including drafting Bills of Costs and Schedules, undertaking negotiations and the preparation of Replies/Points of Dispute and preparing documents for Detailed and Provisional Assessments.

She has extensive experience of publicly funded matters including the preparation of High Cost Case Plans and Judicial Review Bills of Costs. Her experience includes preparing Bills of Costs and High Cost Case Plans from Solicitors’ paperless files and she has often worked in-house when required on Solicitors’ own paperless systems.

Outside of work, Elaine is an eternal optimist, supporting the England football team both home and abroad.