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High crimes and misdemeanours

One of the books I read over the summer was by the Secret Barrister: in essence a polemic on the

Last month the Lord Chancellor suffered another defeat in the High Court in the case of R v The Lord Chancellor

A colleague at the Bar recently asked me what I actually did on a day to day basis, having some

The bane of solicitors practising in the field of personal injury has since at least 2013 been the application of

I had an entertaining trip to Manchester on Friday, in order to speak at the ACL conference in the Hilton

It has been cynically observed in the author’s presence, that insurance companies only care about fraud, and costs, and only about care

A central part of the LASPO 2012 reforms, was the introduction of Qualified One Way Costs Shifting (QOCS) as part

Sometimes a defendant makes a shrewdly judged part 36 offer, which is refused or ignored by the claimant or there is

The challenge in R (on the application of UNISON) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51 was not primarily predicated on human

One of the more interesting books that I have read recently has been “Saving Capitalism” by Robert Reich, for the