The unforgiving hour

If you can fill the unforgiving minute. With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the…

On a pale horse

As long ago as 2009, The Guardian reported that banks and solicitors were charging £1.25 billion…

Sea Lords of Malta

Easter has now been and gone. I have returned from a very welcome break on the…

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…