CIVIL PROCEDURE AND COSTS: BLOG AND ARTICLES ROUND UP – JANUARY 2020
Links and articles to blog posts and articles available online in January 2020
Costs
Costs Barrister Conditional fee agreements and contentious business agreements
Association for Costs Lawyers Oversight regulator praises CLSB’s “considerable progress”
Association for Costs Lawyers Offer acceptance applied only to accident victim’s father and not other dependants
Association for Costs Lawyers CLSB lays out plan to reform CPD – but 12 points requirement will remain
Association for Costs Lawyers QOCS protection continues to apply on appeal, CA rules
Association for Costs Lawyers Solicitor struck off for “recreating” letters about costs budget
Association for Costs Lawyers News in brief 09.01.2020
Association for Costs Lawyers News in brief 16.01.2020
Association for Costs Lawyers News in brief 23.01.2020
Brexit and litigation
Herbert Smith Freehills Brexit under the withdrawal agreement: the implications for disputes
Confidentiality
Herbert Smith Freehills Court of Appeal overturns order permitting use of covert recordings to support claims in civil litigation before breach of confidence claim determined
Sanctions
Herbert Smith Freehills Recent decision suggests sanctions should only rarely be implied into court rules and orders where not expressly stated
Part 36
Association for Costs Lawyers Part 36 uplift is 10% or nothing, rule committee decides
The Law Society Gazette Part 36 offers excluding interest are not valid, rules Court of Appeal
Disclosure
The Law Society Gazette City firm sees off disclosure challenge over £65m security claim
Privilege
Herbert Smith Freehills No collateral waiver where party relied on the effect of legal advice rather than its content
Funding
Evidence
Kingsley Napley Cutting a long story short: Reform of witness evidence in the Business & Property Courts
Litigation Futures
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