Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The High Court has awarded indemnity costs over a failed £1bn challenge to the award of the National Lottery so as to mark its disapproval of the claimants’ “extraordinary” litigation conduct.

The Lady Chief Justice has unveiled a modernisation of the High Court which will see a new Business and Property Division replace the Chancery Division.

A judge has partially struck out a defence lodged by class action specialist Pogust Goodhead in a battle over £3.1m in fees which litigation boutique Seladore Legal says it is owed.

London law firm Forsters failed to validly serve a claim form for a claim valued at around £82m, the High Court has ruled.

A solicitor who fabricated and backdated a disclosure letter to make it appear that he had complied with a court deadline has been struck off.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is to publish guidance on the implications on the Mazur ruling very shortly, it has told MPs.

A junior solicitor who used AI to draft two misleading emails to the High Court “seems to have almost entirely outsourced the thinking process”, the judge has said.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been ordered make an interim costs payment of £200,000 to global law firm Dentons – but the Court of Appeal questioned the overall costs claimed.

The investment of US law firms in the UK litigation market is paying off, according to new figures which show them involved in one in five Commercial Court cases.

The Financial Conduct Authority’s review of the claims management market will focus on financial services and products, and housing disrepair, it has announced.