If you can fill the unforgiving minute. With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the…
Year: 2023
On a pale horse
As long ago as 2009, The Guardian reported that banks and solicitors were charging £1.25 billion…
Of herbs and stewed rabbit
Spring has reached the riverlands. Each day the sky seems to become bluer, and the foliage…
Personal Injury Costs 2023
On 30th March 2023 Craig Ralph and I are undertaking our latest Zoom seminar. As the…
Changing times
Sometimes, even now, a decade after the implementation of the Jackson reforms, to most of civil…
Thick and fast
The last few months have seen an outpouring of legal argument, judgment, analysis and statutory reform…
That hard six
Sometimes you just gotta roll the hard six. -Unknown On 2nd February 2023 The Civil Procedure…
Conditional fee agreements and retainer challenges
For many years, disputes about retainers have been at the heart of the “Costs Wars” fought…
Unbowed, unbent, unbroken
Following on from the decision of the Court of Appeal in University Hospitals of Derby and…