Litigation/Dispute Resolution

A judge has refused to order the sale of a house after finding that the buyer’s solicitor “cut corners” and did not hold a signed contract at the point of exchange, despite claiming he did.

A judge should have adjourned a trial after the defendant reported symptoms of Covid, the High Court has ruled. He was wrong to criticise the defendant for failing to take a lateral flow test.

A woman who lives in Scotland but chose to instruct an English law firm to conduct her personal injury case, using a Scottish law firm as agents, cannot recover the English firm’s fees.

A law firm acting for hundreds of women who claim to have been harmed by vaginal mesh implant surgery has had its costs slashed by an unimpressed judge.

A personal injury specialist has become one of the first CILEX advocates to set up a law firm regulated by the Bar Standards Board, providing county court advocacy services.

A judge has expressed his “deep concern” at being threatened verbally by a litigant in person unhappy with his ruling but continued to hand down judgment on the second part of her appeal.

Leigh Day has launched the first environmental collective action at the Competition Appeal Tribunal against Severn Trent Water – one of six it is planning against water companies.

The High Court has rejected a barrister’s appeal against a ruling that a negligence claim against him should not be struck out on limitation grounds.

Listed law firm Gateley has increased its non-legal professional capabilities by spending £6m on an East Midlands chartered surveyors practice, while also setting up a collective actions practice.

Legal professional privilege should not apply in a case where there is a “very good arguable case” that a client used global firm DLA Piper’s services to assist a fraud, the High Court has ruled.

A number of adverse costs awards against Liverpool law firm High Street Solicitors pushed its insurance premiums up and contributed to its collapse, administrators have revealed.

A London law firm that took an assignment of nearly £2.5m owed to a client to pay its fees has been granted summary judgment by the High Court.

The Court of Appeal last week overturned a decision that £2.7bn collective proceedings over a foreign exchange spot-trading cartel should be on an opt-in, rather than opt-out, basis.

RBG Holdings – the AIM-listed business that owns the law firms Rosenblatt and Memery Crystal – saw its shares dive to an all-time low yesterday after writing off all of its contingent work.

The High Court has removed a nine-year anonymity order in favour of a solicitor, meaning that the Solicitors Regulation Authority can now investigate his misconduct in later costs proceedings.