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

Solicitor and own client assessments under section 70 of the Solicitors Act 1974 used to be rare beasts. It used

Last week Sir Henry Brooke died at the age of 81. I did not know him, and only appeared in

The challenge in R (on the application of UNISON) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51 was not primarily predicated on human

One of the more interesting books that I have read recently has been “Saving Capitalism” by Robert Reich, for the

We are now 2 weeks into the New Year and I have emerged from my burrow, blinking into the light

Why would a litigation solicitor wish, when making a retainer with a client to charge the client a fixed fee

Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules has been around since the initial implementation of the Woolf Reforms in 1999 but

The judgment of the Court of Appeal in the case of Budana v The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust [2017]

One of the perennial areas of work in costs litigation concerns disputes over part 36 offers. Even now, in November 2017,