Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The government yesterday continued to stonewall on when litigation funding reform would happen, citing the need to find “a new legislative vehicle” to take it forward.

The number of claims lodged at the county court in the second quarter of this year was the highest since the Ministry of Justice started publishing quarterly statistics in 2009.

An extraordinary row broke out yesterday over whether Pogust Goodhead has been replaced as the solicitors bringing the Mariana Dam case.

The Court of Appeal has thrown out a bid to appeal a ruling that cleared defendant law firm DWF of data protection breaches.

A £3m liability cap in a law firm’s terms of business was unreasonable under the Unfair Contract Terms Act, the High Court has held.

A solicitor has been struck off for creating letters to mislead both his opposite number and his own firm in a bid to cover up his failure to acknowledge service.

A pre-action protocol run through an online portal would be a better way to resolve lower-value costs disputes than handing them to the Legal Ombudsman, specialists have argued.

A judge has allowed hundreds of rugby head injury claims to go ahead despite not complying with unless orders, after taking “comfort” from the players changing solicitors.

The High Court has lifted a suspension preventing HMCTS from signing a new cybersecurity contract, triggered by a procurement challenge.

It is likely that “humans will come to accept, on economic grounds, machine-enabled resolution of small disputes”, the Master of the Rolls has predicted.