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

On Friday 6th December 2013, His Honour Judge Wood QC, handed down a reserved judgment in two conjoined appeals, the

Today, 27th November 2013, the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in what is now the leading case on the

About 40 miles from here, in 1485, Richard III unwittingly brought the Middle Ages to an end, by losing the

One of the more interesting and challenging areas of costs, relates to the practice of costs in the context of group

A large number of cases are emerging, where in a claim worth more than £5000 but less than £10,000, the proceedings