Peter Hatvany

  • Opinion

    Judgment day

    23 May 2016

    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

    13 April 2015

    Court fee increases are draconian, unjust and misguided.

  • News

    A good thing?

    08 April 2013

    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

    04 March 2013

    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

    2012-10-25T00:00:00

    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

    2011-05-06T00:00:00

    I fully endorse the comments of Michael Freeman, regarding the county court system failure in London.