DEFAULT AND SANCTIONS CASES IN THE COURTS IN 2025: WEBINAR 12th NOVEMBER 2025

This year has see more than its fair share of cases relating to default, sanctions and wasted costs. Knowing what those cases are, the problems that arose, how they were caused and the results are essential skills for litigators.  More importantly looking at these cases provides important guidance on how to avoid problems in the future, look after clients properly and keep your practice running smoothly.  This webinar brings you bang up to date and even considers an important striking out/relief from sanctions case decided today (so new that it is not on this blog yet…)

BOOKING DETAILS

Booking details are available here.

THE WEBINAR

This webinar is a review of those cases where litigants (and their lawyers) have fallen foul of the rules in 2025.

It looks at cases where parties have required relief from sanctions and the practical steps that lawyers can take to ensure that these problems are not repeated in their own practices.

• Wasted costs orders against solicitors and counsel
  • Why were they made?
  • Could they have been avoided
• Serving documents late, the consequences that follow
• Serving a skeleton argument late
• Serving Particulars of Claim late
• Filing an acknowledgement of service late
• Striking out pleadings and relief from sanctions
• Breaching a peremptory order and the costs consequences
• Why a £1 million action was automatically struck out not reinstated
• Relief from sanctions refused when a costs budget was served late
• Failing to serve witness evidence and relief from sanctions
• Why the court refused to adjourn an application so that a claimant could apply for relief from sanctions