Litigation Funding news – Page 78
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NewsConsumers ‘happy’ with solicitors’ services but price issue remains, SRA says
Research published by Solicitors Regulation Authority details experiences of vulnerable consumers in family cases.
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NewsFixed costs ‘in doubt’ after High Court backs budgeting regime
Mrs Justice Carr agrees that a budget fixed the amount of recoverable costs, which should be reduced only if there is good reason.
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NewsNHSLA invites firms to fight over £544m contracts
Existing contracts for the provision of legal services set to end in May.
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NewsCourts bill: whiplash plans will clog up courts to boost insurer profits, says Law Society
Chancery Lane hotly disputes the government narrative underpinning the proposals.
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News£72,000 bill for £3,000 claim ‘disproportionate’, costs judge insists
Court finds Thompsons Solicitors had not planned ahead for the amount of work clinical negligence claim would require.
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NewsEx-Leeds Utd MD fails to overturn costs award against fellow solicitor
David Haigh applied to Westminster Magistrates’ Court to bring a private prosecution against Peter Gray.
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NewsBe more diverse or we’ll withhold 10% of your fees, IT giant tells firms
US technology company HP issues diversity mandate, telling law firms ‘we can all do better’.
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Litigation funder launches $200m US investment vehicle
IMF Bentham launches $200m vehicle to finance US cases and investments.
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NewsSolicitors to ‘vociferously oppose’ fee cuts
Criminal law groups say Ministry of Justice plans to reform litigators’ graduated fee scheme are ill-conceived.
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NewsSolicitors attack MoD compensation plans for soldiers
Law Society says removing legal representation will create a 'David and Goliath' situation.
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NewsDechert’s £16m bill in fraud office case ‘unrealistic’ – judge
Costs assessment of work over probe into mining deals will now move to High Court.
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NewsTruss willing to drop legal aid fee cut – with strings
Law Society sceptical as MoJ announces potential concession on graduated fee schemes.
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NewsAutomatic strike-out for cases where trial fee unpaid
Hearing fee refunds also being scrapped under changes to Civil Procedure Rules confirmed this month.
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NewsCourt allows escape from fixed costs after offer accepted late
District judge rejects argument that ruling would open floodgates to applications for indemnity costs.
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NewsLord Justice Jackson takes to the road on fixed costs
Judge ‘keeping an open mind for the time being’ about the type of case that should fall within fixed costs, and the upper limit.
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NewsFunding bonanza as litigation investors commit £723m to UK
More businesses are seeking to share the financial risks involved in litigation or arbitration.
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NewsCourt of Appeal rules claimants out of portal restricted to fixed costs
Lord Justice Briggs says to ‘throw open’ pre-action disclosure applications to assessed costs could create an undesirable level of satellite litigation.
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NewsLawyer groups urge Jackson to rethink fixed costs plans
Proposals dismissed as unjustified and likely to leave successful claimants paying more.
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NewsFixed costs for clinical negligence: the figures
Full rundown of the proposed options for claimant lawyers under the new scheme.
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NewsClin neg fixed costs plans unveiled as Hunt targets ‘unscrupulous’ firms
Campaigners claim proposals to restrict costs would ‘seriously harm access to justice and patient safety’.