Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The number of housing disrepair claims made against local councils has increased almost five-fold this decade but the picture for legal costs is more mixed.

The first chartered legal executive with standalone litigation practice rights could be authorised in six weeks’ time, with around 2,300 expected to apply for them in the next 18 months.

The number of complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service brought by law firms and CMCs has collapsed in the wake of the new case fee.

All third-party funders should join the Association of Litigation Funders while the government decides on the way forward for the sector, the courts minister said this week.

The High Court has expressed surprise that a paralegal did not know more about the restrictions that the reserved legal activities imposed on her work.

A regional costs judge has described how he applied the ruling in Mazur to cut the costs awarded to a law firm in a housing possession case from £3,000 to less than £500.

A law firm representing huge numbers of people with car finance mis-selling claims has accused lenders of “systemic obstruction”.

The Mazur ruling will have no impact on the work of the first regulated AI law firm as the technology is not conducting litigation, its founder has asserted.

The Financial Conduct Authority is not trying to discourage motor finance victims from seeking professional representation, a senior executive insisted last week.

The number of collective actions filed at the CAT has “collapsed” to only three this year, due mainly to the “chilling effect” of PACCAR, a report has argued.