All articles by Neil Rose – Page 3
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Review: a sideways look at the workplace
Getting OutSarah Henley Lion & Unicorn Theatre, London
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Jackson hints on ending recoverability of success fees
Lord Justice Jackson has given his clearest hint yet that he is minded to end the recoverability of success fees when he makes his final recommendations to reform civil litigation costs. Speaking at the Sweet & Maxwell conditional fee agreement conference last week, Jackson asked ...
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Jack Straw announces crackdown on ‘irresponsible’ employment lawyers
Justice secretary Jack Straw has announced a crackdown on ‘irresponsible’ employment lawyers who he says are exploiting vulnerable clients by taking a large proportion of the damages they win in ‘excessive legal fees’. The move to curb the use of contingency fee agreements in tribunals – ...
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Radical reforms mooted in Jackson civil justice review
Radical reform of civil justice is on the agenda in the wake of Lord Justice Jackson’s preliminary report on costs. Greater use of fixed costs, an end to recoverability, a conditional legal aid fund (CLAF), a crackdown on referral fees and changes to the cost-shifting rule ...
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After-the-event insurers seek clarity from Ministry of Justice
After-the-event (ATE) insurers are calling for a seat at negotiations about a new claims process amid fears that the question of when solicitors can take out insurance is back on the table. The Legal Expenses Insurance Group (LEIG), which represents seven insurers, has written to the ...
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Jackson commends German costs recovery model
Lord Justice Jackson (pictured) may consider a costs recovery system based upon the German model when he releases the preliminary findings of his 1,000 -page review into civil litigation costs early next month.
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MoJ delays implementation of new accident claims processing regime
The Ministry of Justice has conceded defeat over its timetable for introducing a new claims process for road traffic cases, as the Gazette predicted last week (see [2009] Gazette, 23 April, 3). A letter sent to stakeholders this week says it now hopes to have the ...
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Talks deadlocked on new process for road traffic claims
Government plans to introduce a new process for handling low-value road traffic claims this autumn are under serious threat, the Gazette can reveal. Talks between all sides to define how the process should work – which it had been hoped would be completed by Christmas – ...
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New cooling off rule could invalidate many personal injury CFAs
The government is to meet personal injury solicitors over concerns that new doorstep-selling regulations could invalidate many conditional fee agreements (CFAs) signed over the past six months. The new regime, the Cancellation of Contracts made in a Consumer’s Home or Place of Work etc Regulations 2008, ...
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First ABSs expected by 2011
The first alternative business structures should open for business in 2011, the chief executive of the Legal Services Board predicted last week. Chris Kenny told the Association of Law Costs Draftsmen’s annual conference in Harrogate that the recession would encourage new ventures.
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Sports law is now an established practice area
The ties between the solicitors’ profession and sport are long and deep, predating the influx of money that has finally made sport a practice area taken seriously by the largest law firms. It was a solicitor, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, who had the idea to form an ...
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Straw’s pay warning to legal aid lawyers
Lawyers and law firms dependent on state funding would be ‘wise to reconsider’ their expectations of earnings, the Lord Chancellor has warned. In a stark vision of the future, underlining the government’s determination to press ahead with controversial legal aid reforms, Jack Straw said last ...
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Litigation funder seeks an extra £35 million
The only UK-listed third-party litigation funder is raising a further £35m, in part because it says other funders have fallen away with the downturn. Juridica Investments, in Guernsey, raised £80m when it launched on the Alternative Investment Market in December 2007, but says it requires more ...
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Litigation funder seeks new cash injection
The only UK-listed third-party litigation funder is raising a further £35m which it said it needs as the market ‘heats up’. Juridica Investments, based in Guernsey, raised £80m when it launched on the Alternative Investment Market in December 2007, but said it now requires more capital, ...
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The Associate
John GrishamCentury, £18.99 A core element of John Grisham’s work is the black-and-white presentation of good and evil – this is what makes his books so successful and also perhaps disappointing. ...
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European ruling deals blow to in-house confidentiality
The group representing general counsel at FTSE-100 companies has been refused permission to intervene in a case on the extent of privilege enjoyed by in-house lawyers – on the ground that neither it nor its members have a ‘direct interest in the result’. Issuing preliminary rulings ...
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UK firms join worldwide Madoff case alliance
Four London law firms were among 34 practices from around the world that met last week in Madrid to launch an international network of lawyers acting for the alleged victims of the Madoff scandal. Bristows, Edwin Coe, Rawlings Giles and Speechlys have joined the group, which ...
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Work-permit policy for trainees 'discrimination', appeal tribunal rules
Law firms that refuse to consider training contract applications from students who would need a work permit are having to review the policy following a ruling last week. The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld a finding of indirect race discrimination on the grounds of nationality against top-30 ...
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Poaching teams is profitable, research shows
Large law firms are increasingly looking to poach teams from their rivals as they can quickly turn a profit, according to new research. The annual Smith & Williamson professional practices survey found that 45% of the 102 law firms which took part – most in the ...
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Firms settle web spat
A dispute between two Manchester law firms has ended with a modest payout to two clients whose case studies were used on a firm’s website. The argument began when a solicitor moved from Geoffrey Miller to Olliers, which then featured on its site some motoring cases she had worked on. ...