Peter Hatvany
- Opinion
Judgment day
Low-level number of judgments against businesses probably down to 600% or so increase in up-front court fees.
- Opinion
Court fees: a charter for defaulters
Court fee increases are draconian, unjust and misguided.
- News
A good thing?
In the last edition of the Gazette (25 March) the Law Society announced that it had managed to secure a postponement on the abolition of the recoverability of success fees and insurance premiums in insolvency cases until 2015.
- News
In conflict with clients
The Jackson reforms undermine the most important principle of achieving fairness for victims of injustice. That is to ensure that the victim is returned to the position they would have been in but for the wrongdoing.
- News
Off centre
Taking up where Nye Moloney left off, I have found the County Court Money Claims Centre (CCMCC) to be lacking. I am uncertain as to how the interaction between the centre and the Northampton Bulk Issue Centre pans out in practice.
- News
A law unto itself
I fully endorse the comments of Michael Freeman, regarding the county court system failure in London.