Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The High Court has expressed surprise that a paralegal did not know more about the restrictions that the reserved legal activities imposed on her work.

A regional costs judge has described how he applied the ruling in Mazur to cut the costs awarded to a law firm in a housing possession case from £3,000 to less than £500.

A law firm representing huge numbers of people with car finance mis-selling claims has accused lenders of “systemic obstruction”.

The Mazur ruling will have no impact on the work of the first regulated AI law firm as the technology is not conducting litigation, its founder has asserted.

The Financial Conduct Authority is not trying to discourage motor finance victims from seeking professional representation, a senior executive insisted last week.

The number of collective actions filed at the CAT has “collapsed” to only three this year, due mainly to the “chilling effect” of PACCAR, a report has argued.

Regulators should assure non-authorised people who may have inadvertently conducted litigation as found by Mazur that they will not face criminal prosecution or disciplinary action.

The collective action regime received a timely boost yesterday after a claim against Apple over its App Store became the first case to win at trial.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has granted the first public sector collective proceedings order, with the Home Office as litigation funder and largest class member.

A law firm has been ordered to pay wasted costs after it cited two fictitious cases that were generated by artificial intelligence.