
POSTS ON STRESS AND LITIGATION: A RECAP: LITIGATION AND LITIGATORS IN A TOUGH WORLD
Comments on the post earlier this evening on dealing with stress have been supportive. This may be a good time to provide a recap of the posts and links already on this blog in relation to lawyers, litigation and stress….

HOW DO LAWYERS RELAX? GUIDANCE AND LINKS: FIND MUGGLES, START SEWING AND DISCONNECT FROM YOUR WORK
This post follows a tweet I received earlier this evening, from “Bunglingbarrister” Bunglingbarrister “Even when I’m not doing work I still think about it often. I don’t think it is healthy to never allow your brain to switch off….

ALLEGED “MISCONDUCT” DURING ASSESSMENT PROCESS DID NOT LEAD TO COSTS BEING DISALLOWED OR REDUCED: ATE PREMIUM WAS REASONABLE
In Murray v Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 539 (QB) Mr Justice Stewart rejected an argument that mistakes made by a claimant during the assessment of costs process should have led to costs being disallowed or reduced. The…

PROVING THINGS 145: WHEN EXPERTS ARE OF NO HELP AT ALL: IT IS THE FACTS THAT WON IT
I am giving a seminar on “Expert Witnesses and Liability” at the APIL Annual Conference in May. The judgment of HHJ McKenna (sitting as a High Court judge) in Al-Iqra & Ors v DSG Retail Ltd [2019] EWHC 429 (QB) gives…