One of the delights of having a common law practice at the Bar, is the wide…
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The Lord of Misrule
Regretfully, I had to change my plans this weekend as our village’s Brexit street party, to…
Herbert v HH Law Limited
Yesterday argument concluded in the Court of Appeal at 5pm, in the case of Herbert v…
The golden goose
For seven hundred years the common law courts set their faces against strangers to a case…
Construing costs management orders
Costs budgeting and costs management has evolved over the last 5 years substantially. Evolution it should…
Issues based costs orders and part 36
One dilemma that arises from time to time is how a court is to balance the…
QOCS and fundamental dishonesty II
Assuming that the issues have been sufficiently telegraphed to the putatively dishonest party, how is fundamental…
QOCS and fundamental dishonesty
It is sad to say, that fraud is present in a significant number of cases in…
If I could turn back time
One of the vagaries of the costs management regime, is that it has to function in…
2019
2019 is about to begin with the Navy tussling with asylum seekers in the Channel, the…