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Latest edition of MedMal from Marketform featuring Gary Knight on costs
Click the link below to read the February edition of MedMal from Marketform. Gary Knight talks about claims for costs and what to look for on page 8 – page 13. 1502 MedMal
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Legal Costs Update by Gary Knight
Following a winter of discontent the decision of the Court of Appeal in the matter of Denton brought a sunnier outlook, if not glorious summer, for under fire Solicitors with green shoots of common sense springing up almost every where. Denton is dealt with elsewhere…
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Supreme Court issues stark human rights costs warning
A long-running nuisance dispute may have a profound effect on parties’ liabilities for costs in cases fought under the pre-LASPO regime, the Supreme Court has warned. Although the Supreme Court reserved its final decision on how to proceed until future representations had been obtained, Neuberger…
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R3 Research Project: Jackson Survey
Insolvency litigation and the impact of the Jackson reforms R3, working with ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, IPA, Moon Beever, JLT Specialty Ltd. and Moore Stephens, has commissioned Dr Peter Walton of the University of Wolverhampton to conduct independent research into the likely impact on insolvency litigation…
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Claimant solicitors beware!
The ‘Doorstep Regulations’ and Defective CFAs continue to cause problems for Claimant Law Firms Ridge v Lupton & Place Limited – DJ Obodai, Manchester County Court Following the successful settlement of the Claimant’s claim for damages against his former employer in August 2011, the…
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Have you seen the new Law Society model CFA and advice?
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/Advice/documents/Amended-model-conditional-fee-agreement/ http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/advice/articles/civil-justice-reforms-update/
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Flatman -v- Germany
The long awaited and much anticipated judgment from the Court of Appeal has been provided in the matters of Flatman –v- Germany and Weddall v Barchester Health Care. Two unrelated matters where the Claimants lost their cases, both were advised under a CFA but had…
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New model conditional fee agreement
From 1 April new rules on conditional fee agreements (CFAs) come into force. Clients who enter into a CFA on or after 1 April will have to pay the success fee and any after-the-event (ATE) premium from their damages. These changes have been brought about…
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CFA with Counsel post 1 April 2013
I have a CFA with my client already. What if I wait until after 1st April to ask counsel to sign up? Currently there is a great deal of debate and uncertainty concerning the recovery of Counsel success fees and ATE premiums incurred after 1…
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