Little boxes
One of the features of reaching the plateau of middle age, is being able to look back at the steps […]
Rumbling on
Welcome to 2024. A new year, new horizons, new issues and the costs wars continue to rage. There are imminent
Costs and clinical negligence claims
Twixmas (that curious period between Christmas and New Year) can be a time for angst, stress, boredom, and in the
ChatGPT4
Many years ago in the 1980s, I received for my birthday a ZX81 computer. It had an internal 1k of
Non party costs Orders and directors
Applications for non party costs orders (NPCOs) are coming thick and fast at the moment: on average I seem to
Costs and arbitral proceedings
One of my interests for many years, has been arbitration and more latterly arbitration costs. As well as advisory work,
Clinical negligence costs revisited
Next Thursday, the 7th December 2023 at 4.30pm, in the last Zoom seminar of the year, the living legend that
Black Friday
I am hitting the airwaves again, with the living legend who is Nick McDonnell of Kain Knight on Friday. The
Soft law
Just as many solicitors will proceed from qualification to retirement, without a single solicitor-own client assessment troubling them and in
Nine Hands Cutting
One of the more interesting (and potentially useful) arguments in the recent case of Diag Human SE v Volterra Fietta