The Court of Appeal judgment today in Sharp -v- Leeds City Council [2017] EWCA Civ 33 deals with an important point about fixed costs and applications for pre-action disclosure.
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An application for pre-action disclosure made by a claimant in a case that was covered by the Personal Injury ...
A good decision. It’s quite obvious that these PAD applications were just being used by greedy and opportunistic lawyers as a means of extracting additional costs out of the insurers, and I’m pleased the practice has been effectively stamped on.