2014

The 13th June 2014 saw the coming into force of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and Additional Charges) Regulations 2013. […]

As this blog approaches its second anniversary I have been doing some tinkering under the bonnet. The first and most

Since well before the Jackson Reforms on 1st April 2013 liability insurers and others have been fighting battles over allocation

The recent decision of Lord Dyson published on 28th July 2014 not to set new guideline hourly rates was baldly

One of the areas of costs practice that has a little while to run yet despite the implementation of the Jackson

Can litigation funding play a useful role in increasing “access to justice” for the individual, as opposed to an SME

Consider. A personal injury claim has been struck out for failure to comply with an “unless” Order.  The application for relief

An interesting corollary, of the rise of QUOCS can reasonably be anticipated to be an upsurge in wasted costs Orders,

The post below is the text of a lecture delivered to the Association of Costs Lawyers Conference on 9th May 2014.

One of the incipient developments of the next 12 months, must surely be a “mis-selling” scandal in respect of conditional fee agreements