Litigation/Dispute Resolution

A CILEX member running an unregulated business conducted litigation in breach of the Legal Services Act 2007 when she acted on a possession claim, the High Court has ruled.

The government has decided that the UK should join the Singapore Convention, which provides a framework for international recognition and enforcement of commercial mediation agreements.

Justice minister Lord Bellamy has refused to commit to regularly uprating the new or existing fixed recoverable costs by inflation.

A sole practitioner was validly served with a negligence claim at an address listed for him on the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s website, the High Court has ruled.

A leading intellectual property law firm has failed in its bid to strike out a representative action brought over ten of millions of pounds in alleged secret commissions it earned on IP renewals.

A negligence claim over inheritance tax advice provided by City law firm Charles Russell Speechlys is to go ahead after the High Court held that it is not time-barred.

Solicitors were wrong to allow a client to see cross-examination questions that had been drafted by the other side under a vulnerable witness order, a High Court judge has held.

The government’s tenancy mediation service pilot, which hoped to have 3,000 successful resolutions, ended up with just four, a review published this week has shown.

City law firm Rosenblatt was in breach of duty and negligent in advice it gave to the sacked chairman of the AA but this did not cause him any loss, the High Court has ruled.

A judge who interrupted a claimant 52 times during cross-examination acted inappropriately, the Court of Appeal has held. It accepted he was trying to help the claimant.