Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The government’s tenancy mediation service pilot, which hoped to have 3,000 successful resolutions, ended up with just four, a review published this week has shown.

City law firm Rosenblatt was in breach of duty and negligent in advice it gave to the sacked chairman of the AA but this did not cause him any loss, the High Court has ruled.

A judge who interrupted a claimant 52 times during cross-examination acted inappropriately, the Court of Appeal has held. It accepted he was trying to help the claimant.

A new initiative launching next month aims to provide a stream of funding for public interest cases which “clarify the law” and are unsuitable for crowdfunding.

The High Court has rejected the appeal of a former client of a leading City law firm against a decision that he has to pay its outstanding fees of £417,000.

The widespread use of online source Wikipedia by senior judges could mean fake information spreading, leading to bad judgments, research has warned.

The number of civil mediations has hit 17,000 a year, 3% higher than the pre-pandemic level, while mediators are ready and willing for mediation to become compulsory for sub-£10,000 cases.

The Supreme Court has let down both the profession and clients by refusing to hear two cases on solicitors’ rights brought by a specialist London law firm, its managing partner has argued.

The UK sanctions regime does not block the courts from entering judgments in favour of a party on the sanctions list, the High Court has ruled.

A City firm’s solicitors can be given “need-to-know” designation under the law of Mozambique to assist with disclosure in a $2bn Commercial Court claim.

The National Archives, which took over as the immediate online publisher of senior court judgments last year, failed to publish judgments in over a quarter of cases in its first three months.

A High Court judge has struck out a Russian businessman’s committal applications against two City law firm partners, describing them as “totally without merit”.

The High Court has rejected an application to begin contempt proceedings against a solicitor over what it said was a simple error in a witness statement.

The High Court has ruled that a circuit judge should not hear any more of a claim against HSBC because his own relationship with the bank raised the risk of apparent bias.

A law firm which released nearly £1.3m in deposits for off-plan flats in a failed development in Liverpool did not breach its contract with the buyers, appeal judges have ruled.