“High Court judge Mr Justice Vos has ordered firms involved in the wave of phone-hacking cases to find a more efficient method of working or risk their clients being forced into a group litigation order [GLO] represented by a single firm.”
The Lawyer, 19th March 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A £140,000 court case could have been avoided with ‘a moderate degree of carpeting’, a senior judge has said.”
BBC News, 16th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“With meditation now compulsory for couples who want a divorce, Neal Robinson’s practice has an ever-increasing workload.”
The Guardian, 9th March 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Court of Appeal has upheld a wasted costs order against a Buckinghamshire firm, ruling that it was ‘complicit’ in its client’s ‘manipulation’ of the court process by failing to give reasons for opposing a hearsay notice in a criminal trial.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 8th March 2012
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Speech by Lord Justice Jackson
RICS Expert Witness Conference, 8th March 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“It is a typical day of employment tribunal hearings – but the rules are set to change as the government considers an overhaul of proceedings in these courts.”
BBC News, 5th March 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Those of us who act as mediators in property matters have been conscious for some time of the particular suitability of mediation as a forum in which to resolve disputes over property rights. The flexibility and breadth of the mediation process enable the parties to look beyond the strict legal principles with which a Court would be concerned and to identify and address as well the more esoteric and human issues which often lie just beneath the surface in cases involving land.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 2nd March 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Four trade-unionists who were accused of racism after drawing a satirical cartoon of the three wise monkeys who ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ have won a four-and-a-half year legal battle.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th March 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“1.1 Recommendation ten. In paragraph 5.3 of chapter 10 of the Costs Review Final Report (‘FR’) I recommended that in personal injuries litigation the level of general damages for pain suffering and loss of amenity be increased by 10%. In paragraph 5.6 I recommended that general damages for nuisance, defamation and any other tort which causes suffering to individuals be increased by 10%. This recommendation is one out of a hundred and nine recommendations in the FR, all of which are collected on pages 463-471. It is recommendation ten in the list.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 29th February 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“Charlotte Church and her parents have settled their phone-hacking claim against the publisher of the News of the World, News International, in an agreement worth £600,000 in damages and costs, the high court has heard.”
The Guardian, 27th February 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Irwin Mitchell has been forced to defend its pricing policy after the Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger highlighted a case in which it charged six times the amount paid out to its client.”
The Lawyer, 21st February 2012
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“This morning (16th February 2012) the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the case of Simcoe v Jacuzzi Group UK PLC. The case is, in effect, the appeal against HHJ Stewart QC’s judgment in Gray v Toner (Liverpool County Court, 11th November 2010) and provides the answer to the questions which have bedevilled detailed assessments for the last 18 months or so – from what date does interest on costs usually run and does the fact the Claimant was on a CFA provide a reason to not award interest until the costs are assessed”
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4 New Square, 16th February 2012
Source: www.4newsquare.com
Simcoe v Jacuzzi UK Group plc [2012] EWCA Civ 137; [2012] WLR (D) 35
“The date from which interest ran on an award of costs in the county court in favour of a successful litigant was, by reason of article 2 of the County Court (Interest on Judgment Debts) Order 1991, the date the order for costs was made, not the date on which costs were assessed or agreed. The discretion granted in making an award of costs by CPR r 40.8 did not apply and was ineffective in that court.”
WLR Daily, 16th February 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A senior judge has warned there is ‘something out of kilter’ in the civil justice system after hearing a case in which lawyers were paid almost six times more than their client.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A fireman was cleared of not wearing a seatbelt after he said a policewoman told him she had to book him because she had targets to hit.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th February 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“October last year saw the decision of the Court of Appeal in litigation arising from the administrations of Nortel and Lehman Brothers (Re Nortel GMBH [2011] EWCA Civ 1124). The case concerned the treatment of contribution notices from the Pensions Regulator by the administrators. However, for those who ventured beyond mention of the Pensions Regulator, the decision contains a useful review of the law pertaining to whether liabilities fall as provable debts or expenses of the insolvency process.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 8th February 2012
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Lawyers are earning ‘success fees’ totalling £66 million a year for helping patients to sue the NHS, new figures have revealed.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Assessment of costs in the brave new world: Eighth lecture in the implementation programme (PDF)
Speech by Lord Justice Jackson
KPMG Forensic’s Leeds Law Lecture, 2012
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
“A council that had its library restructuring plans quashed in the high court spent more than £70,000 fighting the judicial review.”
The Guardian, 24th January 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A business tycoon is facing up to £6m in lawyers’ bills after an epic million court struggle during which he was ordered to pay a total of £15 million to his ex-wife.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th January 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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