The new discount rate – striking a fair balance?
John Cuss asks whether it’s time to update the Civil Procedure Rules in respect of service by email.
Queasy money? Curing travel sickness claims
An epidemic of holiday sickness claims has plagued the travel industry over the past couple of years. Stephen Mason examines the impact of new regulations.
Law Society blog: Law firm marketing ban in hospitals won’t cure NHS ills
Read our blog post by Richard Miller, head of Justice at the Law Society, in which he argues that plans to ban personal injury firms advertising in hospitals in England are short-sighted and counter-productive.
Winner takes all: How far should the personal injury reforms go?
Following the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) consultation “Reforming the Soft Tissue Injury (Whiplash) Claims Process” earlier this year, the personal injury (PI) sector is about to face a radical change. Matthew Cotton, vice-chair of the Civil Litigation Section examines the opposing views and comments on the likely effects of the ...
Extending fixed recoverable costs: change is coming for litigators
The government is consulting until 17 January on extending fixed recoverable costs across civil litigation. If implemented, they will represent some of the greatest changes for civil litigators since the 19th century, says Kerry Underwood.
Funding switch cases – the retrospective sting in the tail
Tom Jenkinson from Bolt Burdon Kemp recaps the recent funding switch decision in XDE v North Middlesex University Hospital Trust [2019] EWHC 1482 (QB), as well as the pressures on legal aid funding and what firms can do to help justify a funding switch.
What’s changing in clinical negligence litigation?
Book review: Kerry Underwood on Personal Injury Small Claims Portals
Law Society blog: Law firm marketing ban in hospitals won’t cure NHS ills
Managing fixed costs in clinical negligence work
Book review: Clinical Negligence Claims by 9 Gough Square
'No room for negotiation': why clin neg fixed costs will be a disaster
Changes to the whiplash claims process
As part of its whiplash reform programme, the government is increasing the small claims limit for road traffic accident related personal injury claims to £5,000.
Royal assent for whiplash reforms
LASPO: ban on personal injury referral fees isn't working, MoJ told
MoJ to increase small claims limit for motoring claims in April 2019 - read our response
Insurers bound by protocol to pay solicitors costs, Supreme Court hears
MoJ confirm April 2019 for RTA claim reforms
Alarm over denial of legal rights for road traffic victims
Law Society launches new injury-related accreditations
Write to your MP on small claims and whiplash
'Whiplash' proposals undermined in parliamentary committee evidence session
Insurers will be the winners in personal injury 'reforms'
‘Cold calling must be banned’, lawyers’ groups warned
Case note: Moreno v Motor Insurers Bureau [2016] UKSC 52
Whiplash plans under fire from Law Society
Law Society hits back at the Association of British Insurers
Motor insurers benefit while access to justice is hit
Request for low value personal injury case studies
Personal injury proposals - update to members
PI lawyers call for independent probe on insurance fraud total
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