Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The government claimed yesterday that “our reforms are working” after the latest county court statistics showed that delays continued to fall against the backdrop of a rising workload.

The Competition Appeal Tribunal is “alert” to the possibility that revenue streams are the priority for lawyers and funders where they, rather than the claimants, initiate class actions.

The solicitor behind the successful car finance commission claim at the Supreme Court earlier this month has said he believes his team “smashed the doors open” to future claims.

The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision that appeared to limit the rights of data breach victims to bring claims.

Failures by a will-writing company were among circumstantial evidence that led a High Court master to decide a will was made under undue influence.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has uncovered a significant amount of poor practice in the way law firms are managing high-volume consumer claims.

The Financial Conduct Authority has been urged to rethink its advice to consumers using law firms in motor finance claims after research showed how many have already signed up.

The Association of Consumer Support Organisations is looking to sue Amazon on behalf of more than 45m consumers who bought products on its website from third-party sellers.

A Surrey law firm has failed to strike out a negligence claim brought by a married couple who claim they were forced to sell their home to fund litigation over a loan that was not repaid.

Claimant class action lawyers have accused a leading City law firm of doing the dirty work of the US Chamber of Commerce, which campaigns in the UK for pro-business civil justice reform.

The CAT has granted business lobby group Fair Civil Justice permission to intervene in a hearing on how to distribute £10m not claimed in a collective action.

A law firm which failed to uphold its side of a deal when taking on another practice’s Plevin cases has been ordered to pay it £105,000.

There were more than 655m class members of actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal at the end of 2024 – equivalent to 10.4 class actions for every person in the country.

Peers on the House of Lords’ financial services regulation committee have questioned whether the FCA’s plan for a motor finance claims redress scheme is too generous.

Lord Justice Birss, the outgoing deputy head of civil justice, has spoken out at what he called the “heavily Balkanised” civil justice process in England and Wales.