Andrew Hogan's blog on costs and litigation funding
Costs budgeting and costs management has evolved over the last 5 years substantially. Evolution it should be noted is often a bloody process: nature red in tooth and claw, promoting the survival of the fittest,
Continue readingOne dilemma that arises from time to time is how a court is to balance the competing considerations which can arise at trial, where a claimant succeeds in beating their own part 36 offer at
Continue readingAssuming that the issues have been sufficiently telegraphed to the putatively dishonest party, how is fundamental dishonesty to be defined? Perhaps the starting point is to consider the latest formulation of what would be dishonesty
Continue readingIt is sad to say, that fraud is present in a significant number of cases in personal injury litigation. Whether that involves hardened criminals operating in organised gangs to fake accidents and claims, or otherwise
Continue readingOne of the vagaries of the costs management regime, is that it has to function in the real world where the substantive litigation it is subsidiary too grinds through relentlessly irrespective of when a case
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