Today the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in the case of Cartwright v Venduct Engineering…
Year: 2018
1Q18
One of my favourite series of books in recent years, is the sequence 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami,…
The mills of god
Over the last 20 years, I have dealt with every conceivable type of litigation in every…
The philosophers’ stone
I have long thought that perhaps the most valuable commodity in the world is information. In…
The great escape
The bane of solicitors practising in the field of personal injury has since at least 2013…
The road not taken
For many years the questions of alternative funding and its availability has been central to disputes…
Beyond the Wall
I had an entertaining trip to Manchester on Friday, in order to speak at the ACL…
The North remembers
I have just finished putting the final touches to the paper on QOCS I have been…
I fought the law
It has been cynically observed in the author’s presence, that insurance companies only care about fraud, and costs,…
QOCS considered
A central part of the LASPO 2012 reforms, was the introduction of Qualified One Way Costs…