All Civil justice articles – Page 47
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NewsInsurers toast new discount rate plans
Rate will be based on ‘low risk’ investments and reviewed every three years, lord chancellor announces.
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NewsNewcastle civic leaders in talks to host civil justice
Local authority's courts lease expected to generate income to fund front line services in the city.
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OpinionFruit from a poisoned tree: unlawfully obtained evidence
Courts of England and Wales are more flexible than many in admitting evidence obtained by computer hacking.
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NewsExclusive: FoI reveals flexible pilot courts running at only half capacity
Official figures raise fresh questions about the controversial tests due to start later this year.
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NewsBrexit: Government wants continuing judicial relationship
New civil judicial cooperation framework will be 'aspect of the deep and special partnership with the EU'.
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NewsThe wait is over: LAA announces civil tender timetable
Relief over start date but government to press ahead with controversial plans for housing possession court duty schemes.
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NewsCourt examines 'tension' in rules on budgeting costs
Practicalities of detailed assessment of budgeted cases outlined.
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NewsTen-minute rule: Law firm's billing 'unusual', costs judge declares
Ten-minute units ‘uncommon’ in contentious work, with clients unlikely to recover such fees in full.
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OpinionRelentless expansion of litigation funding
US funding market is still seen as offering plenty of headroom for growth.
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FeatureThe laws the Grenfell Inquiry must tackle
The many difficulties the inquiry team will have to face in a regulatory minefield.
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NewsCourt rules on fixed costs for interim applications
Hope that decision would ‘stem the flow’ of challenges over fixed costs amounts.
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NewsUK litigants only 28% of commercial court users
Annual survey shows commercial court as increasingly global as international competition hots up.
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NewsJudge spearheading late-night courts confronts the critics
Fulford LJ insists no-one will have to work longer hours - and says the idea could ’fade into history’ if controversial pilots do not work.
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OpinionJ-Day has come – More fixed and capped costs are here to stay
Jackson review entrenches fixed costs, but it is not as bad as feared.
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OpinionWhen misconduct tests democracy
Crises over judicial independence and immigration highlight the delicate balance of asserting EU values while respecting national sovereignty.
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NewsJackson on fixed costs: the profession reacts
Proposals could deny many claimants access to justice - though they could have been worse.
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NewsSolicitors relieved as Jackson rows back from one-size-fits-all costs
Civil costs proposals include new intermediate track for claims up to £100,000 - and new rules for judicial review cases.
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Opinion
Dodgy motors and the lure of the modern
Like so many bright ideas, abolishing the tax-disc looked a no-brainer. Until it hit the real world.