Litigation/Dispute Resolution

Drivers are eyeing up litigation instead of waiting for the legal challenge to the motor finance compensation scheme, in the wake of the date of the hearing being set.

The High Court has ruled that the Mariana Dam client committee did not have the power to change solicitors for the 400,000 clients.

The High Court has strongly criticised the Government Legal Department for repeatedly missing deadlines and only applying for extensions after they passed.

AI offers “potentially transformative implications for justice”, the incoming Master of the Rolls has said, and the judiciary’s approach will be “cautious but positive”.

The ability of AI to generate documents and other material could pose “an existential threat to the integrity of the immigration appeal system”, the Upper Tribunal has warned.

The Bar Council has backed plans to add disability to the ‘equal merit’ provision applied to the selection of judges, alongside ethnicity and gender.

An online platform which allows solicitors to see barristers’ availability, making it easier to instruct them at short notice, has attracted its first paying barrister clients.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has criticised a leading class action law firm for including in evidence an “offensive personal attack” on its president.

Agentic AI could become the “default doorway” into the justice system, “identifying legal problems before people recognise them and pursuing processes on their behalf”, the Law Society has predicted.

The Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that a solicitor “dishonestly assisted” in misappropriating a company’s funds.