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…

Time to let rip

The ripples from the decisions of the Court of Appeal in Belsner v Cam Legal Services [2022]…

Losing interest

Happy New Year. And so begins 2023. At the tail end of last term, a judgment…

The Archangel’s Way

            May our god of the high moor, of tor and…

Jingle bells

Once one QOCS case arrives, like the number 27 bus, you know that another one will…

QOCS bounces back

QOCS has been called (by me) the gift that never stops giving. I anticipate that when…