All Costs, fees and funding articles – Page 28
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NewsVos halts PI fees appeal after wider issues raised
‘Ramifications seem to me and to us to be more profound than had appeared before we started the case,’ master of the rolls tells court.
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NewsMoJ working towards mid-March for legal aid response
Gazette understands meeting will take place with criminal bar ahead of practitioners being balloted on action.
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NewsFixed costs: Housing specialists gather evidence on legal aid consequences
Housing Law Practitioners Association says new regime poses significant threat to provision of quality advice, assistance and representation.
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NewsMaster of the rolls adjusts his dial
Masks and wigs were off as the Court of Appeal turned steamy for costs hearing.
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News‘Reeling’ PI market needed fees solution, Court of Appeal hears
Appeal in Belsner v CAM opens with arguments about ‘stark consequences’ for profession.
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NewsCBA prepares to issue ballot papers on legal aid action
Jo Sidhu QC says barristers and solicitors cannot afford to wait until 2024 for an increase in fees.
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NewsEntrepreneur in contempt over £200,000 dispute with Farrer & Co
Julie Meyer, 55, has ‘shown herself in these proceedings to be a selfish and untrustworthy person’, Mr Justice Kerr says.
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NewsCosts assessment sent to wrong address struck out
Costs Judge Jason Rowley: ‘There is nothing within the rules to require one party to assist the other.’
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NewsCourt allows later medical reports despite failure to disclose first
Judge rules sanctions should be about costs in RTA case rather than admissibility.
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NewsCriminal barristers to be balloted on legal aid action
Dominic Raab signalled last week that he would not rush response on reforms.
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NewsRosenblatt parent's litigation funder in £20m deal with investor
RBG Holdings says the arrangement will ‘support our move away from our current model of selling participation rights in cases to investors’.
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NewsLawyers in ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel case criticised by judge
Mrs Justice Steyn says messages sent by the claimant to her agent ‘ought to have been disclosed’.
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NewsMishcon told to clarify privilege claims in ‘potentially tainted’ cash case
London firm is accused of ‘turning a blind eye’ to the source of £2.9m in fees paid by a former client.
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NewsDuty solicitor data lays bare looming crisis
Several English counties have no duty solicitors aged under 35, Law Society research shows.
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OpinionCan new clin neg fee scheme be made to work?
For those injured through careless or substandard medical care, the new system must work fairly despite the low fees on offer.
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News'This is a lie': Criminal bar accuses Raab over legal aid demand
Lord chancellor had said government was bound by public law obligations and strike action would be irresponsible.
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News‘Like schoolchildren’ - judge lambasts solicitors’ behaviour in costs row
Latest ruling in ‘Dr Bitcoin’ litigation criticises 'unedifying mud-slinging' on both sides.
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NewsNo lawyers referred to SRA over collapsed SFO prosecution, MPs told
SFO director Lisa Osofsky denies there is a ‘systemic failure’ in relation to disclosure by the watchdog.
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NewsRushing legal aid reform 'opens us up to legal challenges', claims Raab
Ministers defend timetable for responding to review but say some reforms in short term are 'hypothetically possible'.
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NewsSolicitor ‘played to harmful lawyer stereotypes’ with £2.9m costs claim
Nabeel Sheikh suspended by SDT after a different panel had previously found no case to answer.