For a form of words with pedigree going back to at least 1930 and generating judicial decisions on it within a couple of years from…
Fixed costs in personal injury are supposed to be straight forward, avoid the need for time spent on assessment and control the level of costs…
The Supreme Court handed down judgment in the case of Ho v Adelekun, limited to the question of whether set off was allowed by a…
Have you ever found that just as you finish writing a book on fixed costs, the Ministry of Justice announce they are extending the Fixed…
Stacey J has been the latest High Court judge to be asked to determine an appeal from the finding at first instance that a claimant…
Those involved in soft tissue injury cases proceeding under the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury Claims in Road Traffic Accidents (“the RTA Protocol”)…
Alexander Mellis, Louisa Denning and Matthew Brunning consider the issue of dishonest defendants in the context of Fundamental Dishonesty in personal injury litigation. There are…
When I was in pupillage, about the only thing that was not wholly different from what had been taught at Bar school was that you…
If you are unlucky enough to have a car crash after 31 May 2021 and suffer whiplash injuries, you will face a very different approach…
So, the New Year does not bring about a new (or is it the old?) way of working. In fact, it looks like we will…
The Ogden 8 my schedule Stand by your schedules and counter-schedules, dig out those old Part 36 offers and get ready to apply to increase…
After nearly 10 years since Ogden 7 was released, the Government’s Actuary Department has published a new edition of the Ogden Tables. The 8th Edition…
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. So the famous saying goes. It is unlikely that Morrisons supermarkets – or Wm Morrison Supermarkets…
The severability of post-employment restrictive covenants Tillman v Egon Zehnder Limited [2019] UKSC 32 contains everything you would expect from a judgment of the Supreme…
Supreme Court Decides Contract Matters The ‘gig’ economy cases, scattered throughout the different tiers of varying jurisdictions of courts and tribunals, excite much interest when…
