Litigation/Dispute Resolution

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.

The Ministry of Justice is to launch a “wide-ranging” call for evidence on open justice, access to information and transparency across the courts and tribunals.

A bank’s solicitor may owe a duty of care to the seller of the property when filling in Land Registry paperwork to change the register, the Court of Appeal has ruled.

A law firm being sued for wrongly releasing £2m it held in escrow among other alleged errors has failed in its bid for summary judgment on major elements of the claim.

The UK’s biggest banks are facing 109 class actions across different jurisdictions, while the value of UK class actions for competition law breaches multiplied more than six fold to over £26bn last year.