Litigation/Dispute Resolution

Volume litigation, consolidator law firms and unregulated legal service providers are the focus of a new consumer protection programme launched by the Legal Services Board.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has struck out a challenge to the rules of the Faculty of Advocates, the Scottish Bar, over a restriction on who can instruct barristers.

The “basic principles of agency and delegation” could be used to argue that the Mazur judgment was wrongly decided, a KC and judge has suggested.

The FCA car finance compensation scheme has been “patently been influenced by the profit margins of the lenders”, a report by MPs has found.

A solicitor accused of dishonestly seeking more costs than his client was entitled to claim has been cleared by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal.

The cost of Google adverts for ‘mould claim’ searches continued to surge in the run-up to Awaab’s Law coming into force last week as law firms looked for work.

The number of housing disrepair claims made against local councils has increased almost five-fold this decade but the picture for legal costs is more mixed.

The first chartered legal executive with standalone litigation practice rights could be authorised in six weeks’ time, with around 2,300 expected to apply for them in the next 18 months.

The number of complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service brought by law firms and CMCs has collapsed in the wake of the new case fee.

All third-party funders should join the Association of Litigation Funders while the government decides on the way forward for the sector, the courts minister said this week.