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

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

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

An interesting corollary, of the rise of QUOCS can reasonably be anticipated to be an upsurge in wasted costs Orders,

The post below is the text of a lecture delivered to the Association of Costs Lawyers Conference on 9th May 2014.

One of the incipient developments of the next 12 months, must surely be a “mis-selling” scandal in respect of conditional fee agreements

Access to justice and angling make for unlikely bedfellows. For many people, including lawyers, the notion of spending a day

The text of this lecture was delivered at the Ropewalk Chambers Personal Injury Conference on 8th March 2014. Introduction 1.       

One of the trends of the last 20 years, in the legal profession has been the move to specialisation. Many firms of