Little boxes

One of the features of reaching the plateau of middle age, is being able to look…

Rumbling on

Welcome to 2024. A new year, new horizons, new issues and the costs wars continue to…

Costs and clinical negligence claims

Twixmas (that curious period between Christmas and New Year) can be a time for angst, stress,…

ChatGPT4

Many years ago in the 1980s, I received for my birthday a ZX81 computer. It had…

Non party costs Orders and directors

Applications for non party costs orders (NPCOs) are coming thick and fast at the moment: on…

Costs and arbitral proceedings

One of my interests for many years, has been arbitration and more latterly arbitration costs. As…

Clinical negligence costs revisited

Next Thursday, the 7th December 2023 at 4.30pm, in the last Zoom seminar of the year,…

Black Friday

I am hitting the airwaves again, with the living legend who is Nick McDonnell of Kain…

Soft law

Just as many solicitors will proceed from qualification to retirement, without a single solicitor-own client assessment…

Nine Hands Cutting

One of the more interesting (and potentially useful) arguments in the recent case of Diag Human…