Litigation/Dispute Resolution

Costs budgeting has been a success and should be retained, but also reformed in recognition that “one size does not necessarily fit all”, a major report has recommended today.

National law firm TLT has been ordered to pay around £12.5m in damages for breach of contract and professional negligence over the way it handled an insolvency claim.

A judge was right to hold that he did not have jurisdiction to allow a claim to proceed out of time where the claimants underpaid the court fee by £24, the High Court has ruled.

A High Court judge has condemned a claimant’s “oppressive and disproportionate” approach to enforcing a defendant’s obligations under a freezing order.

The largest loss adjuster in the UK has launched an ABS which plans to double in size by the end of this year and expand from property-related claims to personal injury work.

Herbert Smith Freehills was yesterday accused of being in an “untenable” conflict of interest with its continued role in the Post Office scandal compensation schemes.

The Ministry of Justice wants to see an “exponential increase” in dispute resolution tools like the Official Injury Claims portal, its director of access to justice policy said yesterday.

The Supreme Court is to publish court documents online alongside live streaming of its hearings in a bid to improve transparency, Lord Briggs has revealed.

Listed business RBG Holdings is in the process of selling its third-party litigation funding subsidiary, LionFish, it confirmed yesterday, while unveiling good results for 2022.

A senior policy officer at HMRC who made a “full and frank apology” has avoided prosecution for contempt after breaching the embargo on a High Court judgment.

AI is set to change the way lawyers and judges work, the Master of the Rolls said last week, predicting it will be used to take some – “at first, very minor” – judicial decisions.

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee yesterday published the draft rules that will govern the extension of fixed recoverable costs from October.

A law firm which started proceedings when its client did not have standing to bring them has been ordered to pay wasted costs because it failed to check this.

The High Court has upheld an injunction designed to protect a solicitor told to “mind your own fucking business, you little twat” when visiting a contested right of way from further abuse.

Litigators should know how much any case is going to cost before they even begin the process of budgeting, Sir Colin Birss, the deputy head of civil justice, has argued.