Litigation/Dispute Resolution

A High Court judge has condemned ‘Freeman of the land’ theories used by litigants in person to try and get themselves out of legal difficulties as “offensive to the rule of law”.

The first group of credit hire claims have been processed by a pioneering arbitration pilot – a partnership between a law firm, an insurer and a legaltech firm.

Artificial intelligence is helping judges avoid jigsaw identification of individuals when anonymising judgments, the Chancellor of the High Court has said.

Costs disputes between solicitors and their clients worth up to £50,000 should be dealt with by the Legal Ombudsman and not the courts, the Civil Justice Council has proposed.

The FCA has told solicitors and CMCs challenging its motor finance redress scheme that they should give their clients the chance to end their retainers.

A circuit judge who adopted an aggressive tone with a female barrister and interrupted her excessively has been issued with “formal advice” for misconduct.

The Court of Appeal has made amendments to its Mazur ruling to make clear that law firms are not at risk of committing a criminal offence through inadequate supervision of unauthorised persons.

A law firm which specialises in motor finance claims is to launch and fund a judicial review of new legislation which will ban anyone born after 1 January 2009 from buying tobacco.

The Law Society has decided against trying to appeal last month’s Court of Appeal ruling in Mazur, it has confirmed to Legal Futures.

Personal injury solicitors who jack up their base costs to ensure they always hit the 25% cap on deductions from damages risk referral to the SRA, a senior district judge has warned.

The Law Commission has launched a new project to consider whether a consumer class action regime should be introduced.

A solicitor who knows how to code has created an AI adversary that stress-tests legal arguments before they are tried in court.

Judges have refused to grant a collective proceedings order over an alleged salmon production cartel because it appears more for the benefit of lawyers and funders than consumers.

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.