The bane of solicitors practising in the field of personal injury has since at least 2013…
Author: Andrew Hogan
The road not taken
For many years the questions of alternative funding and its availability has been central to disputes…
Beyond the Wall
I had an entertaining trip to Manchester on Friday, in order to speak at the ACL…
The North remembers
I have just finished putting the final touches to the paper on QOCS I have been…
I fought the law
It has been cynically observed in the author’s presence, that insurance companies only care about fraud, and costs,…
QOCS considered
A central part of the LASPO 2012 reforms, was the introduction of Qualified One Way Costs…
The Republic of Liverpool
I have just returned from another outing to the Liverpool County Court, where I am a…
Widows and orphans
Sometimes a defendant makes a shrewdly judged part 36 offer, which is refused or ignored by the…
More QOCS conundrums
Cases about QOCS seem to arrive like buses, in a pack. In court 72 today, the…
QOCS conundrums
One of the areas of the LASPO reforms which remains notoriously “rough around the edges”, is…