Litigation/Dispute Resolution


Insurers win costs orders against Anexo over credit hire

19 July 2024

A circuit judge has made four non-party costs orders against the credit hire arm of AIM-listed Anexo Group, whose customers have to use its law firm, Bond Turner, to recover its costs from insurers.


Cheers for what’s in King’s Speech, boos for what’s not

18 July 2024

The legal profession’s reaction to the King’s Speech yesterday focused as much on what is not in the government’s legislative priorities as what is.


Firm forced to take action against client’s ex-husband over email error

15 July 2024

A family law firm has had to take legal action against the ex-husband of a client after an associate accidentally sent confidential information about another client to him.


Rule committee silence points to another fixed costs delay

15 July 2024

The extension of fixed costs to low-value clinical negligence cases seems likely to be delayed further after it emerged the rule committee did not discuss them last month.


GLO would add “unnecessary cost and expense” to student Covid claims

11 July 2024

Making a group litigation order would add “unnecessary cost and expense” to already expensive claims from university students over the lack of in-person teaching.


What is a bill? Costs lawyers urge regime reform

10 July 2024

Two significant High Court rulings in which law firms’ billing arrangements did not achieve what they had intended, emphasise the need for reform of the legal framework.


Costs lawyers call for guidelines rates and judiciary recognition

9 July 2024

Costs lawyers have become a fundamental part of litigation teams and this needs to be recognised in the guideline hourly rates and with the ability to apply for judicial appointment.


Judges slash “absurd” £343m budget for first part of diesel cars claim

8 July 2024

The High Court has refused to sanction the “absurd” and “staggering” £343m in costs put forward by the claimants for just the first third of the diesel emissions group litigation.


Counsel should not have attacked solicitor’s integrity, says judge

5 July 2024

A High Court judge has criticised an attack on the professional integrity of a solicitor to an ex-Newcastle United footballer made during the player’s legal action against his former agent.


Firm’s £3m of invoices face assessment after losing ‘statute bill’ fight

3 July 2024

National law firm Weightmans is to have nearly 50 invoices totalling £3m subjected to a detailed assessment after failing to convince a judge they were interim statute bills.


Judge rejects defendant’s request to pay law firm’s £2m costs

3 July 2024

A High Court judge has refused a request from a defendant in the London Capital & Finance fraud case to use the proceeds of sale of his home to pay his solicitors over £2m.


High Court allows McKenzie Friend to exercise rights of audience

27 June 2024

A High Court judge has allowed a McKenzie Friend to exercise rights of audience in supporting a defendant facing an order that could lead to a jail sentence for contempt being activated.


Fee-earner found in contempt over documents taken from law firm

21 June 2024

A fee-earner who has not complied with a court order to return documents taken from his former law firm has been handed a four-month suspended jail sentence for contempt.


Law firm fails to strike out former partner’s unfair prejudice petition

19 June 2024

Well-known London litigation firm Candey has failed in a bid to strike out an unfair prejudice claim brought by a former partner.


SRA “has gone too far” with demands in SLAPPs guidance

10 June 2024

The Solicitors Regulation Authority’s guidance on SLAPPs may go too far in requiring practitioners to ascertain the truth of their client’s case, a senior barrister has suggested.

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