Litigation/Dispute Resolution

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.

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.