Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The High Court has widened legal advice privilege to all internal documents created by the client where the dominant purpose is to seek legal advice, even if they would not actually be sent to a lawyer.

The High Court has imposed a suspended prison sentence on a former executor who failed to comply with court orders by not providing information to a law firm.

Making litigators declare that they did not use AI in preparing witness statements would “reduce the efficiency that AI has introduced in certain tasks”, says APIL.

The Law Society has put the focus on the SRA to give the profession guidance on what amounts to supervision following the Mazur ruling.

A leading City law firm has been ordered to pay wasted costs in a maritime matter because it wrongly told the defendants that it was instructed by the claimant’s insurer.

A High Court judge has agreed to let 62 former Vodafone franchisees be represented by two law firms in their £85m claim against the mobile phone company.

The Law Society has yet to decide whether to appeal last week’s Mazur ruling, while the SRA is reviewing investigations that followed the High Court ruling.

The use of unqualified advocates by agencies has “the potential to undermine the integrity of the legal system”, a judge has ruled.

A City solicitor has invented free software that aims to make producing PDF court bundles hassle-free for lawyers and litigants in person alike.

The costs budgeting ‘lite’ pilots have proven popular with both judges and users in their first year, and are likely to be expanded, the Deputy Head of Civil Justice has revealed.

A dispute between a leading chambers and a barrister over £71,200 of contributions that he allegedly failed to make is set to go to trial later this month.

Troubled litigation funder LCM lost A$112m (£58m) in the last six months of 2025 due to two major case defeats and an adverse costs order in a third exceeding its ATE cover.

The CPS was left without counsel for a serious prosecution after a “failure in communication” between a barrister and the chambers she had recently left.

A High Court judge has been issued with a formal warning for misconduct over significant delays in handing down judgments in two cases – but cleared of using AI in drafting one of them.

The Court of Appeal has overturned the decision in Mazur, holding that an unauthorised person can conduct litigation so long as they are under the supervision of an authorised lawyer.