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Harmans have moved!
Our Aylesbury and Chelmsford teams have just relocated to team up in larger modern offices in Waltham Abbey, Essex. Harmans chose Waltham Abbey due to its prime location on the Essex and Hertfordshire border and its short distance from London. With excellent road and rail…
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The London Legal Walk 2016 by Partner John Moss
This year Harmans again fielded a team of walkers for what proved to be a beautiful evening’s walk around the centre of London. Unfortunately the team proved a little smaller than usual with paltry excuses like ‘having a baby’ and ‘on holiday of a lifetime’…
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Sir Terence Etherton to become next Master of the Rolls
Sir Terence Etherton has been chosen as the next Master of the Rolls and will take up the position in October this year when Lord Dyson retires, it has been announced. Sir Terence has been a High Court judge since January 2001, assigned to the…
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Part 36 indemnity costs trumps fixed costs rules the Court of Appeal
Two low level RTA claims, relating to separate Claimants (Broadhurst and Taylor), were heard together on appeal after opposite decisions were made by judges on whether to equate indemnity costs with fixed costs. The Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson said that assessed costs should…
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Harmans Costs Brief – May 2016
We only went and won it! Harmans are incredibly proud to have been named Costs Company of the Year at the Modern Claims Awards, you can see some photos from the ceremony in Leeds by clicking the link below. Hot on the heels of our win we…
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Supreme Court allows appeal over introduction of civil legal aid residence test
R (on the application of The Public Law Project) (Appellant) v Lord Chancellor (Respondent) Case ID: UKSC 2015/0255 The plan by the Ministry of Justice to introduce its controversial civil legal aid residence test through secondary legislation – the draft Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment…
