Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The Law Society has decided against trying to appeal last month’s Court of Appeal ruling in Mazur, it has confirmed to Legal Futures.

Personal injury solicitors who jack up their base costs to ensure they always hit the 25% cap on deductions from damages risk referral to the SRA, a senior district judge has warned.

The Law Commission has launched a new project to consider whether a consumer class action regime should be introduced.

A solicitor who knows how to code has created an AI adversary that stress-tests legal arguments before they are tried in court.

Judges have refused to grant a collective proceedings order over an alleged salmon production cartel because it appears more for the benefit of lawyers and funders than consumers.

The High Court has widened legal advice privilege to all internal documents created by the client where the dominant purpose is to seek legal advice, even if they would not actually be sent to a lawyer.

The High Court has imposed a suspended prison sentence on a former executor who failed to comply with court orders by not providing information to a law firm.

Making litigators declare that they did not use AI in preparing witness statements would “reduce the efficiency that AI has introduced in certain tasks”, says APIL.

The Law Society has put the focus on the SRA to give the profession guidance on what amounts to supervision following the Mazur ruling.

A leading City law firm has been ordered to pay wasted costs in a maritime matter because it wrongly told the defendants that it was instructed by the claimant’s insurer.