The Show Must Go On

Today the long outstanding clinical negligence ATE appeals in the Court of Appeal painfully limped over…

Half life

It is now more than five years since the inelegantly named Cancellation of Contracts made in…

Costs conferences 2019

Already the autumn and winter schedule of lectures is filling up. I have agreed to speak…

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

“Much better left alone,’ chimed in old Jack Linden sagely, ‘argyfying about politics generally ends up…

The hard deck

Resembling the quest for the Holy Grail, or a hunt for a unicorn, has been the…

Twilight’s last gleaming

One of the more interesting points of law that I have argued (alongside and against the…

The game is on

Readers of this blog will know that one of the issues that I have considered from…

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Costs Orders

In the last 12 months, I think I have seen three cases where the parties have…

The Angels’ Game

What happens in part 45 CPR tends to stay within part 45. There has been a…

51st state

Rough winds are currently shaking the darling buds of May. As the third anniversary of the…