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Security for costs and ATE insurance – threats and co-operation
Friday, 9 December 2022When a claimant is insolvent or close to being insolvent, whether on a balance sheet or cash flow basis, you can expect the defendant’s solicitors to make an application for security for costs.
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Professionally negligent? Don’t forget to discuss ATE Insurance
Wednesday, 7 December 2022Clients lose good cases. Clients settle good cases on poor terms because the adverse costs consequences of losing are potentially catastrophic. Solicitors fail to tell clients about after-the-event insurance or enquire if it might be available.
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Multi-million pound settlement for a clinical negligence case previously abandoned
Thursday, 1 December 2022We are pleased to report that one of our major partner law firms in London, Hodge Jones & Allen (HJA), has recently settled a multi-million pound case.
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Temple Legal Protection appoint Matthew Best to its board of directors as director of ATE partnerships
Monday, 28 November 2022Temple Legal Protection, a market-leading provider of legal expenses insurance, today announced that Matthew Best joined its board of directors on 9th November 2022.
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Disbursement funding update – five options, one real solution to the cost of costs?
Monday, 21 November 2022We’re all looking at ways to save money; law firms should be too. Interest rates are climbing and will continue to do so for some time yet. Therefore, it could well be timely to now consider what disbursement funding options are available for your clients to utilise.
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Fixed costs and more: a fix that doesn’t fix what needs fixing – part 2
Thursday, 17 November 2022There is still no word from the government as to if, why and how fixed recoverable costs are going to happen. The October deadline for implementation was scrapped and we are now looking at April 2023.
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A SLAPP in the face – but is there a fundamental paradox?
Monday, 11 July 2022The allegation is that strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are used by the rich and powerful to protect their reputation and to gag those who would expose them.
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John Durbin joins the Temple Legal Protection ATE insurance and disbursement funding team
Wednesday, 29 June 2022Specialist legal expenses insurer Temple Legal Protection is delighted to announce the appointment of John Durbin as a Senior Business Development Manager. A highly experienced professional, he joins the Temple team providing ATE insurance and disbursement funding to specialist clinical negligence and personal injury law firms.
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Low-value commercial cases – an achievable challenge for ATE insurers
Friday, 24 June 2022There are many good claims brought for damages that are likely to be significantly less than twice the cost of bringing the claim. These cases present a real challenge for insurers.
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‘To Tweet or Not to Tweet’ – Defamation developments
Thursday, 23 June 2022Shakespeare would probably have enjoyed the verbal jousting on social media and Hamlet’s ponderings about human existence in general could also have worked online. But with Twitter in the news again as Elon Musk considers taking over the company and into private ownership, we ask whether this is all ‘much ado about nothing’ or if libel law needs to restrain the worst excesses of online debate.
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