Litigation/Dispute Resolution

An influential law firm’s call for a temporary ban on advertising motor finance claims has found support from other leading solicitors in the field.

Chambers must ensure barristers have “equitable access” to work as part of being members of the Attorney General’s civil panel of counsel, the government has said.

The Court of Appeal has described as “astonishing” a £2m brief fee for leading counsel, plus refreshers of £20,000 a day, to act on an appeal set to last four days.

The working group charged with introducing a new higher band to the guideline hourly rates for heavyweight commercial work is split over whether it is needed.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has approved the £260m settlement of a claim against Google that will see the class representative’s lawyers paid £12m, 32% less than they are due.

The law firm with the biggest car finance claims book in the UK has today called for a temporary ban on all advertising for such claims.

National firm Irwin Mitchell is facing payouts to 261 Court of Protection clients after its trust corporation was found in breach of the self-dealing rule.

There were more than 750m members of class actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal by the end of last year, 80m more than a year earlier, new research has found.

What one person regards as opportunism in litigation “might equally well be another person’s creative lawyering”, a High Court judge has said.

Drivers are eyeing up litigation instead of waiting for the legal challenge to the motor finance compensation scheme, in the wake of the date of the hearing being set.