‘A defendant whose conduct forced the claimant to seek third-party funding to take its case to arbitration has to pay the £2m owed to the funder following the claim’s success, the High Court has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 3rd October 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A paedophile who was caught with more than 137,000 indecent images of children has been spared jail because he wants to start a family.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th October 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The widow of a Falklands war veteran has won a High Court bid to keep frozen embryos that they had created.’
BBC News, 28th September 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘NHS trusts in England paid out more than £1.4bn in medical negligence claims last year compared to £583m in 2008, analysis shows.’
BBC News, 29th September 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sarah Lucy Cooper, barrister of Thomas More Chambers, considers the circumstances in which a respondent might secure a costs order against an applicant in Hague Convention abduction proceedings.’
Family Law Week, 21st September 2016
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘Earlier this month the Scottish government set out its plans to introduce legislation emulating the funding arrangements which have now been in place south of the border for some time. The Expenses and Funding of Civil Litigation Bill, expected to be introduced next year, will permit DBAs to be enforceable by solicitors and will introduce a regime of QOCS, now three years old, countrywide. Though there are few details on how QOCS will work in practice, it is reasonable to expect that the exceptions in the current system will apply equally to the new regime.’
Zenith PI Blog, 23rd September 2016
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘Parties are becoming increasingly likely to claim their costs when settling debt-related disputes via adjudication – but the statutes remain conflicted over whether or not this is legally possible.’
OUT-LAW.com, 26th September 2016
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Can litigants in person ‘escape’ the rules relating to costs budgeting in all claims? To what extent does the costs management regime under CPR 3.12 to 3.18 apply to the costs of a litigant in person?’
Zenith PI Blog, 23rd September 2016
Source: www.zenithpi.wordpress.com
‘Ministry of Justice (MoJ) plans to require judicial review claimants to share details of how their action is being funded with the defendant and other parties is “a fundamentally unprincipled breach of the principle of equality of arms”, the Civil Justice Council (CJC) has claimed.’
Litigation Futures, 21st September 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.co.uk
‘Lord Justice Jackson, the senior judge who shaped key legal reforms, has questioned the government’s policy of imposing steep rises in fees while withdrawing public funding of the court system. In a detailed legal work, entitled The Reform of Civil Litigation, the appeal court judge added his voice to the chorus of criticism from human rights groups and lawyers’ representative bodies who argue that the rises put access to justice beyond the reach of many citizens.’
The Guardian, 21st September 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Courts can make a costs management order in relation to litigant in person (LiP) costs, and LiPs can recover costs where they obtain assistance from lawyers short of them having conduct of the case, the chief Chancery master has ruled.’
Litigation futures, 19th September 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The High Court has today upheld the decision of an arbitrator to allow the recovery of the costs of securing third party funding as costs, in what is being hailed as a landmark decision.’
Litigation Futures, 19th September 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A children’s dance teacher who invented a dying nine-year-old girl and pretended to raise cash to help her complete her bucket list has been spared jail.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th September 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The British Government has been ordered to pay a convicted terrorist more than £13,000 because his human rights were “violated” during police interviews over a plot to attack London. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled that €16,000 (£13,600) of Ismail Abdurahman’s legal costs must be paid at the culmination of a seven-year court battle.’
The Independent, 13th September 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Supreme Court has joined an appeal over the recoverability of additional liabilities in defamation cases to a long-running libel case where it is to consider which party won for the purposes of costs.’
Litigation Futures, 12th September 2016
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A senior judge has said that claims by a countess that a personal development coach “poisoned” her daughter’s mind against her family are “ill-founded”.’
Daily Telegraph, 10th September 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Is 2016 the year of technology assisted review, ask Andy McGregor & Daniel Wyatt.’
New Law Journal, 17th August 2016
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘Wyatt v Vince illustrates the growing trend towards openness of family proceedings, says Sarah Hughes.’
New Law Journal, 17th August 2016
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
‘The County Court has refused costs protection to a claimant after his solicitors had wrongly told the defendants that a funding agreement was in place.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 31st August 2016
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘PricewaterhouseCoopers has been fined £2.3m by the accountancy watchdog over its auditing of the subprime lender Cattles and its biggest division, Welcome Financial Services, in 2007.’
The Guardian, 31st August 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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