Is NIHL a disease or an injury?

On 16th October 2014 Mr Justice Phillips sitting in the High Court in Cardiff will hear…

Assessment of Costs in the Supreme Court

It is always a pleasure to attend the Supreme Court for the purposes of a detailed…

I am not at home

The 13th June 2014 saw the coming into force of the Consumer Contracts (Information, Cancellation and…

Costs barrister gets “sticky”

As this blog approaches its second anniversary I have been doing some tinkering under the bonnet.…

Allocation wars and incoherent defences

Since well before the Jackson Reforms on 1st April 2013 liability insurers and others have been…

The chimes at midnight

The recent decision of Lord Dyson published on 28th July 2014 not to set new guideline…

Challenging ATE premiums

One of the areas of costs practice that has a little while to run yet despite the…

Litigation funding and the little guy

Can litigation funding play a useful role in increasing “access to justice” for the individual, as…

Biting the cherry one more time

Consider. A personal injury claim has been struck out for failure to comply with an “unless” Order. …

Wasted costs revisited

An interesting corollary, of the rise of QUOCS can reasonably be anticipated to be an upsurge…