In March 2019 the government published its latest proposals for a wider introduction of fixed costs…
Year: 2019
Extending QOCS
…the search for truth strains the patience of most people, who would rather believe the first…
The dog days
This month whilst most of the legal world had relocated to the Mediterranean an interesting decision…
Accepting part 36 offers after an assessment has commenced
Occasionally a detailed assessment can go badly wrong-or right-depending on your point of view and one…
The Show Must Go On
Today the long outstanding clinical negligence ATE appeals in the Court of Appeal painfully limped over…
Half life
It is now more than five years since the inelegantly named Cancellation of Contracts made in…
Costs conferences 2019
Already the autumn and winter schedule of lectures is filling up. I have agreed to speak…
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
“Much better left alone,’ chimed in old Jack Linden sagely, ‘argyfying about politics generally ends up…
The hard deck
Resembling the quest for the Holy Grail, or a hunt for a unicorn, has been the…
Twilight’s last gleaming
One of the more interesting points of law that I have argued (alongside and against the…