Litigation/Dispute Resolution

An AIM-listed litigation funder that has lost seven of its last eight cases and recorded an £87m loss in its last financial year has entered into an “orderly run-off”.

A strict page limit on outlining the case would help judges struggling to cope with litigants in person using AI to draft their claims, the incoming Master of the Rolls has suggested.

The High Court has set aside a decision to add a defendant and serve them out of the jurisdiction after finding the case was “not fairly presented” to the judge.

The first pilots under the Online Procedure Rules went live yesterday, covering digital possession claims in three county courts.

The Crown Court has allowed six barristers to record proceedings instead of taking manual notes, recognising that the move is “something of a leap into uncharted territory”.

Payouts from the car delivery charges collective action will start at £25, with consumers and businesses set to receive up to £56m of the £93m total settlement.

Class action law firm Pogust Goodhead is to change its name after Harris Pogust demanded it do so and Thomas Goodhead turned up on the other side of its landmark Mariana Dam case.

The High Court has ordered a former client to pay a solicitor £9,500 for posting a defamatory review on Google describing him as “a fraudster” who “rips you off”.

The national Law Society and Birmingham Law Society have argued against SRA plans for law firms which use litigation funding – but the Legal Services Consumer Panel is a big fan.

It would be “unwise” for solicitors not to reply to questions from clients about whether they had paid commissions to after-the-event providers, the Court of Appeal has warned.