Each year, for longer than I care to remember (a further sign of old age) I…
Category: Personal Injury costs
Waiting for Godot
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep…
The Fall of the Republic
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.― Plutarch, The Fall of the Roman…
Appointment in Samarra
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings. -Horace…
The Curse of Cromwell
All over the country the May-poles were hewn down, lest old village dances around them should…
Claiming enhanced hourly rates
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars. -Proverbs, 9:1 The first…
The Expense of Time
In a data vault, in Switizerland, behind multiple fire walls and triple locked end to end…
Life on Mars
Oh, well let’s entertain it, let’s take it out for a prawn cocktail, a steak and a…
Ho howe hmmm
One of my abiding interests in the field of personal injury costs is the vexed and…
Fixed costs and fundamental dishonesty in personal injury claims
Part 45 CPR governs recoverable costs in a vast swathe of personal injury claims and all…