Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The High Court has made an extended civil restraint order against a former Premier League footballer over his continued attempts to sue his former solicitors.

The Legal Ombudsman has reported a 41% increase in the number of complaints about conveyancing, driven by delays, poor communication and post-completion problems.

Legal regulators have accepted the Legal Services Board’s finding that they missed opportunities to address the issues that came to a head in the Mazur case.

The FCA has launched a new £2m advertising campaign urging motor finance customers to be “claim confident” and not use a professional representative to make a compensation claim.

The High Court has referred a barrister and his chambers to the Bar Standards Board over their involvement in litigation run by a legal consultant it employs.

The Court of Appeal has stayed the contempt hearing against KC Rajiv Menon so that the High Court can decide his challenge to its jurisdiction to hold it.

The CJC is to continue exploring “proportionate transparency” on the use of AI in preparing witness statements as the Court of Appeal recommends a similar investigation for criminal cases.

A libel claimant cannot rely on a document inadvertently disclosed by the defendant’s solicitor in “an absolutely paradigm case of a clear and obvious mistake”.

A man who threatened to “beat the shit” out of solicitors who acted as administrators of his aunt’s will has been found in contempt of court by the High Court.

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.