Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The High Court has referred a direct access barrister to the Bar Standards Board for signing a statement of truth that pleaded a false allegation of fact.

The High Court was wrong to rule that it did not have jurisdiction to grant claimants a protective injunction stopping a defendant from harassing their lawyers, the Court of Appeal has decided.

There was no fiduciary relationship between a solicitor acting for a start-up and its majority shareholders, and an investor in the company, the High Court has ruled.

Collective action pioneer Walter Merricks and his litigation funder are at loggerheads once more in the wake of the latest CAT ruling on interchange fees.

Litigators should have to declare that they did not use artificial intelligence in preparing witness statements for trial, the Civil Justice Council has proposed.

The failure of the claimants in the ‘Dieselgate’ group litigation to “curb the extent of the involvement of innumerable lawyers” is to be marked by a costs penalty, the High Court has decided.

A self-employed advocate who lied in an attendance note about a court hearing in an attempt to cover up the fact he had missed it, has been struck off.

The High Court has ruled that there was no misconduct by a judge who wrongly jailed a barrister for contempt of court.

The High Court has rejected an accusation of abuse of process levied against a leading consumer claim law firm and a KC over their conduct of a data breach case.

A now-defunct law firm has won a Limitation Act argument over two negligence claims initially brought against the firm that the claimants wrongly believed to be its successor practice.