“The High Court has ruled that a third-party litigation funder was entitled to terminate its funding in a case where the prospects of success had fallen below 60%.”
Litigation Futures, 16th September 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Government proposals to allow people of ‘modest means’ to sue for libel without having to pay the other side’s legal costs if they lose could have a ‘chilling effect’ on free speech, a leading media lawyer has warned.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th September 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The Ministry of Justice has proposed new measures to help libel claimants take on big corporations.”
BBC News, 13th September 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Costs protection in defamation and privacy claims: the Government’s proposals.”
Ministry of Justice, 13th September 2013
Source: https://consult.justice.gov.uk/
“There will be two costs wars as a result of the Jackson reforms – one arising from the old regime and the other from the new, a leading costs expert has predicted.”
Litigation Futures, 13th September 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“A High Court master last week more than halved a proposed budget in a quantum-only cerebral palsey case, it has emerged. Leading costs lawyer Matthew Harman told this week’s PI Futures seminar in Manchester that the master also refused to hear any argument on hourly rates.”
Litigation Futures, 12th September 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Mohammed Saleem Tariq & Anton van Dellen reflect on the early days of the Jackson reforms.”
New Law Journal, 6th September 2013
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
“A council has been fined £5,000 and ordered to pay costs after an 82-year-old vulnerable woman was injured in a fall at one of its care homes.”
Local Government Lawyer, 10th September 2013
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
“A specialist planning court has been proposed by Justice Secretary Chris Grayling to help ensure crucial development projects no longer get mired in unnecessary legal delay.”
Ministry of Justice, 6th September 2013
Source: www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice
“In December 2010 the government announced plans to close the Forensic Science Service (FSS). The FSS was the primary source of forensic expertise to prosecution authorities, and a major provider of expertise to defence lawyers – demonstrating a world class position as provider of impartial evidence to the criminal justice system. Whilst at the time of closure there was already an increasing move to outsourcing services to private forensic providers, the bulk of market share was taken by the FSS, meaning that private providers had little commercial clout. Since the demise of the FSS the position has shifted and power is split between the buyers of services (primarily the police) and the private providers. One matter of grave concern at the moment is in relation to accessing forensic material.”
CrimeLine, 9th September 2013
Source: www.crimeline.info
“The issue of the costs of third party interveners in judicial review proceedings was dealt with recently in the case of R (Peel Investments) v Health and Safety Executive [2013] EWHC 1012 (Admin), [2013] Env. L.R. D6. Peel involved a novel application of established principles on costs that will be of interest to all those advising commercial bodies in regulated industries in respect of intervening in judicial review proceedings.”
Littleton Chambers, 22nd August 2013
Source: www.littletonchambers.com
“The Court of Appeal will decide whether Andrew Mitchell MP can reverse a High Court decision that the cost of his libel action against The Sun should be restricted to the cost of the court fees for the claim.”
The Lawyer, 30th August 2013
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“The Court of Appeal has taken the highly unusual step of ruling that a judge should have recused himself from hearing a wasted costs order against a party’s solicitors given the comments he made about them in his substantive judgment.”
Litigation Futures, 27th August 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
“Every litigator will be aware of the new obligation to prepare budgets. What follows is a series of warnings about trips and traps.”
New Law Journal, 19th August 2013
Source: www.newlawjournal.co.uk
“Tesco has been fined £300,000 after admitting it misled customers over whether strawberries on sale were genuinely ‘half price.’ ”
BBC News, 19th August 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The judge who had heard a substantive application would almost always be the right judge to deal with consequential issues as to costs, even if he had made findings adverse to a party in the course of reaching his conclusion. However, exceptional circumstances might arise where there was apparent bias stemming from the facts of the case which meant that the judge should have recused himself from dealing with the issue of costs.”
WLR Daily, 14th August 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Alex Verdan QC of 4 Paper Buildings considers several recent judgments in Children private law proceedings which provide practitioners with helpful guidance.”
Family Law Week, 15th August 2013
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
“The taxpayer faces a bill for up to £1 billion after the Government was sued by an Iranian bank that claimed it had been wrongly placed on a sanctions blacklist.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Russian wife has been awarded one of the highest divorce settlements ever made by an English court after a judge ruled that she should receive more than £53 million from her ex-husband.”
Daily Telegraph, 14th August 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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