The bane of solicitors practising in the field of personal injury has since at least 2013 been the application of […]

For many years the questions of alternative funding and its availability has been central to disputes about the recovery of

I had an entertaining trip to Manchester on Friday, in order to speak at the ACL conference in the Hilton

I have just finished putting the final touches to the paper on QOCS I have been asked to deliver at

It has been cynically observed in the author’s presence, that insurance companies only care about fraud, and costs, and only about care

A central part of the LASPO 2012 reforms, was the introduction of Qualified One Way Costs Shifting (QOCS) as part

I have just returned from another outing to the Liverpool County Court, where I am a frequent visitor. It is

Sometimes a defendant makes a shrewdly judged part 36 offer, which is refused or ignored by the claimant or there is

Cases about QOCS seem to arrive like buses, in a pack. In court 72 today, the Court of Appeal handed

One of the areas of the LASPO reforms which remains notoriously “rough around the edges”, is the subject matter of