Litigation/Dispute Resolution

Solicitors in a dispute over service did not have to explain to their opposite numbers why they believed they were not out of time, the High Court has ruled.

A City law firm will be able to fully defend itself from serious allegations after a judge held that its former clients cannot claim legal professional privilege because of the iniquity exemption.

A law firm has won its claim over unpaid fees, even though the judge found that the client-care letters presented to the court were “retrospectively created” to support its case.

A judge has set aside his order for payment of a law firm’s administrator after new evidence raised “a sense of real unease and concern” about the decision.

A law firm bought by an accountant earlier this summer is to launch a national campaign to attract directors involved in disputes over Bounce Back Loans.

The High Court has refused to allow a struck-off solicitor to reopen vexatious litigation against the Law Society, Bar Council, senior judges, lawyers and many others.

Legal regulators must warn lawyers that they will face action to stop them unethically taking advantage of vulnerable litigants, a charity has urged.

A solicitor’s declaration that three witness statements were compliant with the rules set out in practice direction 57AC was false, the High Court has ruled.

The High Court has criticised City giant Freshfields for requesting changes to a draft judgment without informing the opposing solicitors.

A law student expelled by Reading Univeristy has won a partial victory in a judicial review challenging the recommendations of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator.

The civil courts’ case management system is a limitation of the ability of solicitors to join multiple claims to a single claim form, a High Court judge has said.

The International Legal Technology Association has published a draft best practice guide for the use in e-discovery of active learning, which it hopes will be officially endorsed.

The High Court has struck out a counterclaim brought by a law firm that “deliberately maintained a discreet silence” until the claim against it was “done and dusted”.

There is “far too much lip service” paid to the rules on the content of witness statements and litigants should not presume that breaking them “will not have consequences”, a judge has warned.

The government has shelved reintroducing the Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill until after the Civil Justice Council has completed its review of funding next year.