‘Indemnity insurance reforms put forward by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) last month will damage the small firms the regulator is trying to help, a specialist law firm has warned.’
Legal Futures, 4th April 2018
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘In Nesbit Law Group LLP the Court of Appeal had to determine the proper construction of an exclusion clause in a series of Fidelity Guarantee Indemnity policies and whether the insurer should be permitted to amend its defence (the application having been made weeks before the hearing of the appeal) to allege various breaches of a loan agreement by insured which breaches were necessary for the insured to be caught by the exclusion clause.’
4 New Square, 23rd February 2018
Source: www.insurancelaw.london
‘An award of indemnity costs after a successful part 36 offer in a provisional assessment does not remove the £1,500 costs cap, the Court of Appeal has ruled in overturning the High Court.’
Litigation Futures, 20th December 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘After-the-event insurance which can be voided does not constitute adequate security for costs, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Overturning the decision of Mr Justice Snowden, Lord Justice Longmore said the case raised “important questions of principle” because the original decision showed “there may be a tendency (I put it no higher) for judges at first instance to accept that an ATE policy can stand as security for costs.’
Litigation Futures, 23rd November 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘A member of the public has failed in a bid to force Liverpool City Council to disclose the legal advice behind its decision to pay the costs incurred by elected mayor Joe Anderson in an unfair dismissal case.’
Local Government Lawyer, 25th October 2017
Source: localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The High Court has rejected the chance to approve indemnity costs against a losing party after it found the bringing of the case could be justified.’
The Guardian, 10th October 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘A regional costs judge has concluded that he was wrong to rule in a previous case that late acceptance of a part 36 offer automatically entitled the claimant to an award of indemnity costs, and thus provided an escape route out of fixed costs.’
Litigation Futures, 9th October 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The Court of Appeal has backed the order of indemnity costs against a retired couple involved in a battle over access to gas and electricity meters, who “had not come to court to assist the court in resolving the dispute but to assist themselves”.’
Litigation Futures, 15th August 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The High Court has found that a lender must be rational when exercising its contractual discretion to charge collection fees under a receivables finance agreement. The agreement allowed for fees of up to 15%, however, the maximum chargeable for the lender to remain compliant with its duty was found, in this case, to be 4%.’
OUT-LAW.com, 1st august 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘Last month I discussed the Court of Appeal decision in Ashfaq v International Insurance Company of Hannover PLC [2017] EWCA Civ 357 in which the insurers were held to be entitled to avoid a commercial landlord policy on grounds of non-disclosure of pending criminal proceedings. The Courts again considered avoidance for misrepresentation and non-disclosure in this latest case heard by Judge Slater in the Queens Bench Division.’
Park Square Barristers, 19th June 2017
Source: www.parksquarebarristers.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has held in Cameron v Hussain and Liverpool Victoria [2017] EWCA Civ 366 that a Claimant can obtain a judgment against a Defendant identified only by description of him as the driver of a vehicle on a particular date. Whilst in almost every other area of law such judgment would be worthless as unenforceable, the Road Traffic Act 1988 provisions impose a contingent liability against the insurer of the vehicle to satisfy such a judgment. At first blush this seems to dismantle the careful limitations placed on the European Communities (Rights Against Insurers) Regulations 2002 to effectively enable a Claimant to pursue the insurer of a vehicle despite the fact that the driver of the same is unknown. This article, drafted by Park Square Barristers’ insurance indemnity specialists, Richard Paige and Judy Dawson, looks at the Court of Appeal judgment and the implications for the insurance industry.’
Park Square Barristers, 19th June 2017
Source: www.parksquarebarristers.co.uk
‘The president of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has reproached the Law Society for a “deeply unimpressive” explanation of its failure to disclose all the documents it should have done in the Socrates case.’
Legal Futures, 7th June 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘The High Court has agreed to order a claimant to pay additional security for costs, even though the ‘material change’ in circumstances behind the defendant’s application were known to the judge who made the original order.’
Litigation Futures, 15th May 2017
Source: www.litigationfuture.com
‘An insurer has failed to convince a judge that a medical expert who agreed to cover its costs in a whiplash case should be ordered to pay on the indemnity basis.’
Litigation Futures, 9th May 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘The correct interpretation of a contract in England and Wales will depend on a range of factors, including the words of the contract and the context in which they are used, according to the UK’s highest court.’
OUT-LAW.com, 3rd April 2017
Source: www.out-law.com
‘An irrevocable undertaking by a claimant company’s owner to pay adverse costs is not equivalent to after-the-event (ATE) insurance and so not enough to defeat an application for security for costs, the High Court has ruled.’
Litigation Futures, 20th February 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
‘On 21 December 2016, Mr Justice Stuart-Smith gave judgment in relation to the costs issues arising out of the OCENSA Pipeline Group Limitation (Arroyo v Equion Energia Limited [2016] EWHC 3348 (TCC)). This judgment followed the very lengthy judgment ([2016] EWHC 1699 (TCC)) given on 27 July 2016, in which he dismissed, on the facts and on the law, 4 Lead Claims.’
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Henderson Chambers, 20th January 2017
Source: www.hendersonchambers.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal will be tasked with offering landmark guidance on the liability of professionals where property is purchased through an ID fraud. The Gazette exclusively revealed last week that City firm Mishcon de Reya faced a £1m payout after its client Dreamvar was duped into buying a London property from a tenant posing as the owner.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 6th February 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Judges should be “very slow to entertain a discussion as to whether parties to litigation have negotiated in a reasonable manner”, the Court of Appeal has cautioned.’
Litigation Futures, 19th January 2017
Source: www.litigationfutures.co.uk`
‘The High Court has sent another warning message to litigants that they should expect to face costs penalties for unreasonable conduct. In Barkhuysen v Hamilton, published just before Christmas, Mr Justice Warby said the claimant was entitled to more than budgeted costs due to how the case was handled.’
Law Society’s Gazette, 4th January 2017
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
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