All Dispute Resolution articles – Page 6
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FeatureTalking business: highlights from the spring conference
Mark Field, Civil Litigation Section committee member, rounds up the talking points from our spring conference, held on 29 April at Chancery Lane
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NewsChanges to the practice direction on pre-action conduct
What you need to know about the changes, in force from 6 April
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Feature
New horizon for litigation funding?
Will the rise in civil court fees lead to litigation funders entering the small and medium-sized claims market, asks Rocco Pirozzolo
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FeatureThe price of justice: mitigating the impact of the new court fees
It remains to be seen whether higher fees will improve the courts service. What is evident, though, is that legal advisers acting for either a potential claimant or defendant need to be flexible in the way in which disputes are handled, both in respect of how they are resolved and ...
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FeatureDeep impact: court fee increases and small businesses
Commercial and civil litigator Keith Jones explains why, in the light of the court fee rises, he is now advising clients to wind-up their business rather than bringing a claim in the county court
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FAQFAQ: Hadkinson ('unless') orders
The Law Society’s Library discusses Hadkinson orders, also known as ‘unless’ orders.
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FeatureLitigation Funding magazine: 40% discount for Section members
Published every two months, Litigation Funding magazine offers you definitive guidance on the financing of civil litigation and essential cost issues. Dispute Resolution Section members receive an exclusive 40% discount.
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Feature
Third party funder hits back at court fee rises
John Kingston, head of investments at dispute resolution funder Vannin Capital, suggests what litigators can be doing now to mitigate the court fees hike
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FeatureKerry Underwood on surviving budgeting: post-issue
In the second part of his series on surviving the cost budgeting process, Kerry Underwood looks at post-issue proceedings
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Analysis
CIP Properties Ltd (AIPT) v Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd [2015] EWHC 481 (TCC)
How to deal with costs management in circumstances where the claimant’s budget was “entirely unreliable” and where the costs were “wholly disproportionate”
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FeatureKerry Underwood on surviving budgeting: pre-action
Kerry Underwood offers advice on managing the pre-action stage post-Mitchell and Denton , in the first of a two-part series on surviving the costs budgeting process
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Analysis
Home Group Ltd v Matrejek [2015] EWHC 441 (QB)
The High Court has allowed a case to continue despite a party failing to turn up for a directions hearing, and post-Denton, is another expression of leniency by the court in relation to parties seeking relief from sanctions
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Analysis
Hamed v Mills & Tottenham Hotspur Football Club [2015] EWHC 298 (QB)
In this case, which provides a useful example of cost assessment in cases where there are two parties and part 36 offers, the court found negligence on the part of a doctor and football club in a claim brought by a professional football player
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Analysis
Yeo v Times Newspapers Ltd [2015] EWHC 209 (QB)
The High Court has highlighted some common issues that arise in costs management, and given general guidance on completing costs budgets
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Analysis
Kazakhstan Kagazy plc v Baglan Abdullayevich Zhunus [2015] EWHC 404 (Comm)
It may be reasonable for a party incurring costs to spare no expense in a case where large amounts of money are at stake, says Mr Justice Leggatt.
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EventCross Border Private Client Section Conference (4 March 2015)
This one-day event will deliver an in-depth examination by lawyers from various jurisdictions on the leading issues in international private client law.
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Analysis
DBAs: where do they stand?
Rocco Pirozzolo looks at the future of damages-based agreements - where do they go from here?
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Analysis
Savoye and Savoye Ltd v Spicers Ltd [2015] EWHC 33 (TCC)
High Court has more than halved a successful party’s costs on summary assessment on the basis of proportionality, in one of the clearest applications of the new proportionality rule seen so far
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FeaturePart of the action: the revised CPR 36
Maura McIntosh investigates the revised part 36 of the CPR, in force from 6 April