MORE ON FISH FILES: "LEAVE THEM IN THE CORNER UNTIL THEY START TO SMELL": RECOGNISING THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTIONS

MORE ON FISH FILES: “LEAVE THEM IN THE CORNER UNTIL THEY START TO SMELL”: RECOGNISING THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTIONS

August 9, 2017 · by · in Avoiding negligence claims, Civil Procedure

Everyone, at some stage, has a “fish file” –  a file that has been left for so long it has started to smell (sometimes literally). Consequently the litigator avoids it and it gets smellier and smellier. These files are always ripe….

COSTS AFTER CLAIMANT'S PART 36 OFFER ACCEPTED LATE: FIXED COSTS, ASSESSED COSTS OR INDEMNITY COSTS? CIRCUIT JUDGE DECISION

COSTS AFTER CLAIMANT’S PART 36 OFFER ACCEPTED LATE: FIXED COSTS, ASSESSED COSTS OR INDEMNITY COSTS? CIRCUIT JUDGE DECISION

August 9, 2017 · by · in Costs, Part 36

I am grateful to  Jonathan Frith from Winns solicitors for sending me a copy of the decision of HHJ Walden-Smith in Hislop -v- Perde a decision made in the  County Court at Central London.  I set the decision out in…