Litigation/Dispute Resolution
Lawyers to be paid £12m out of £260m Google claim settlement
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has approved the £260m settlement of a claim against Google that will see the class representative’s lawyers paid £12m, 32% less than they are due.
Exclusive: Leading law firm calls for ban on car finance claim adverts
The law firm with the biggest car finance claims book in the UK has today called for a temporary ban on all advertising for such claims.
Irwin Mitchell’s dilemma: repay fees to CoP clients or face litigation
National firm Irwin Mitchell is facing payouts to 261 Court of Protection clients after its trust corporation was found in breach of the self-dealing rule.
UK class actions have three-quarters of a billion members
There were more than 750m members of class actions in the Competition Appeal Tribunal by the end of last year, 80m more than a year earlier, new research has found.
Opportunism in litigation can be “creative lawyering”, says judge
What one person regards as opportunism in litigation “might equally well be another person’s creative lawyering”, a High Court judge has said.
Drivers “eye litigation” with FCA motor finance case set for February
Drivers are eyeing up litigation instead of waiting for the legal challenge to the motor finance compensation scheme, in the wake of the date of the hearing being set.
High Court rejects bid to change solicitors in Mariana Dam case
The High Court has ruled that the Mariana Dam client committee did not have the power to change solicitors for the 400,000 clients.
High Court penalises government for ignoring litigation deadlines
The High Court has strongly criticised the Government Legal Department for repeatedly missing deadlines and only applying for extensions after they passed.
Judiciary to take “cautious but positive” approach to AI use
AI offers “potentially transformative implications for justice”, the incoming Master of the Rolls has said, and the judiciary’s approach will be “cautious but positive”.
AI poses “existential threat” to immigration cases, tribunal warns
The ability of AI to generate documents and other material could pose “an existential threat to the integrity of the immigration appeal system”, the Upper Tribunal has warned.
Support for extending JAC’s ‘equal merit’ provision to disability
The Bar Council has backed plans to add disability to the ‘equal merit’ provision applied to the selection of judges, alongside ethnicity and gender.
Platform aims to help solicitors instruct barristers on short notice
An online platform which allows solicitors to see barristers’ availability, making it easier to instruct them at short notice, has attracted its first paying barrister clients.
Law firm included “offensive personal attack” on judge in evidence
The Competition Appeal Tribunal has criticised a leading class action law firm for including in evidence an “offensive personal attack” on its president.
Agentic AI could become “default doorway” into justice system
Agentic AI could become the “default doorway” into the justice system, “identifying legal problems before people recognise them and pursuing processes on their behalf”, the Law Society has predicted.
CA overturns ruling that solicitor turned ‘blind eye’ to fraud
The Court of Appeal has overturned a ruling that a solicitor “dishonestly assisted” in misappropriating a company’s funds.
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A letter from the SRA? Your first reaction matters
An email from the SRA has a way of rearranging a working day. It arrives in the same inbox as everything else, often in the same measured tone, yet it carries a different weight.
Regulate sole practices on evidence, not turnover
For a sole practice, the SRA’s plan that I cannot hold a compliance role if my firm has more than £600,000 of turnover is not a measure of risk. It is a ceiling on growth.
Is Google becoming pay-to-play for law firms?
For years, law firms have been told that SEO is the long-term alternative to paying for every click. That principle hasn’t disappeared but search results have changed significantly.
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