TEN MINUTES IS A LONG TIME IN LITIGATION: SOLICITOR AND OWN-CLIENT ASSESSMENT OF COSTS CONSIDERS BILLING PRACTICES IN DETAIL
I am grateful to Shimon Goldwater for sending me a copy of the judgment of Master Rowley in Breyer Group Pie -v- Prospect Law Limited (A copy of which is attached Costscase). There are significant observations made in relation to…
THIRD PARTY (RIGHTS AGAINST INSURERS) ACT 2010 IS NOT RETROSPECTIVE: PARLIAMENT COULD EASILY HAVE SAID OTHERWISE
In Redman -v- Zurich Insurance PLC [2017] EWHC 1919 (QB) Mr Justice Turner held that the provisions of the Third Party (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 are not retrospective. “If Parliament had intended the 2010 regime retrospectively to apply to…
WITNESS STATEMENTS DIRECT: MEMORY, GESTMIN £15 MILLION AND QUITE A LOT OF ALCOHOL: A HEADY BREW
There is a certain appropriateness in one of the last major first-instance judgments of Mr Justice Leggatt being about witness credibility and the Gestmin criteria. In Blue -v- Ashley [2017] EWHC 1928 (Comm) Gestmin figured heavily. Everyone believed they were…
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