Litigation/Dispute Resolution

A litigation funder which specialised in car finance claims has gone into administration because of delays in progressing cases, with its latest accounts showing outstanding loans of £249m.

The Court of Appeal has strongly condemned ‘privilege hunting’ – illicit methods to obtain information from litigation opponents – in a case where a law firm partner was successfully duped.

The London arm of a leading US law firm has been granted summary judgment against a $74m negligence claim because it was brought out of time.

A judge has expressed deep concern about how an East London law firm has run immigration cases, with multiple clients relying on materially similar documents.

The government has proposed lifting the ban on the use of damages-based agreements to fund opt-out collective actions.

A prominent barrister and academic has put forward plans to create two new institutes to help remove the barriers that prevent 3.5m people each year from accessing legal support.

Pogust Goodhead was “unhelpful, uncooperative, deliberately obfuscatory and misleading” by not revealing its client’s litigation funding problems for three years, the CAT has ruled.

There is a “compelling case” for an appeal, claimant lawyers have said, after the High Court’s liability ruling in the Dieselgate litigation largely went in favour of car manufacturers.

The Crown Prosecution Service put hallucinated cases produced by artificial intelligence before the High Court in an extradition appeal, it has admitted.

Law firms arranging or using third-party litigation funding for consumer claims will have to tell the SRA about it, under plans unveiled today.

A deputy master was wrong to give weight to witness statements from a defendant’s solicitor that “strayed well beyond what she could legally give evidence about”.

A High Court judge has allowed a company to be represented by a man it employed during an adjournment of a hearing so as to ensure compliance with the CPR.

The Lord Chancellor has pledged to MPs that legislation to curb SLAPPs would be brought forward by the end of this Parliament – and hinted it may be sooner.

The SRA is developing materials to help law firms handling high-volume consumer claims improve how they onboard clients after major research showed significant shortcomings.

Delays to the motor finance redress scheme – possibly into 2028 and beyond – show that consumers need representation more than ever, claimant lawyers have argued.