20/03/25. Date of judgment: 28 February 2025
This decision in long-running litigation between Syrian dissidents and the Doha Bank (“the Bank”) and others concerning financial support to conflict groups raised an important point of principle concerning the QOCS regime. By this stage, a group of the claimants in the action had discontinued (“the discontinued Claimants”) whereas another group had continued although those claims were later struck out (“the continuing Claimants”).
The issue
At a costs hearing on...
17/03/25. Hazel Boyd v Debbie Hughes [2025] EWHC 435 (KB)
Date of judgment:> 28 February 2025
Liability, quantum and fundamental dishonesty...
26/02/25. This judgment involved two separate appeals concerning police liability for failing to prevent harm caused by third parties. The a...
The current state of the law regarding material contribution in clinical negligence appears complicated and uncertain. This book charts the...
This Practical Guide to Dental Negligence Litigation provides helpful information for lawyers who are running dental negligence cases, be t...
13/06/25. Date of judgment: 19 May 2025.
This judgment concerned a group of 224 claims against solicitors, the Defendant, from which ten test claimants were identified. Senior Cos...
11/06/25. The Claimant sustained a serious hip injury after being forcefully restrained by two door supervisors outside a JD Wetherspoon (JDW) pub in August 2018. The supervisors...
21/05/25. Date of judgment: 2 May 2025
Andrew Mitchell KC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court was required to decide whether the court had the power to make a costs manage...
19/05/25. In Doroudvash, the Court determined a claimant’s application to join an additional defendant into an action after the expiry of the primary limitation period.
Background...
18/04/25. Henderson and Jones Limited v Salica Investments Limited and Others [2025] EWHC 838 (Comm)
Date of judgment: 4 April 2025
This case is an illuminating decision on the con...
16/04/25. The judgment in Rebekah Vardy v Coleen Rooney [2025] EWHC 851 (KB) arose from an appeal concerning the costs associated with the highly publicised defamation proceedings b...
18/03/25. The UK Government has announced its intention to implement a number of key recommendations from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). There is no draft...
25/02/25. This appeal concerns costs and the interaction between qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) in personal injury claims and cost recovery rules in information law clai...
21/02/25. Date of judgment: 16 October 2024 (but recently published).
The judgment from HHJ Tindal sitting as a judge of the High Court in these recent contempt proceedings traver...
24/01/25. Date of judgment: 4 December 2024.
Whilst Ali v HSF is a case arising in credit hire litigation, the Court of Appeal’s recent decision is of broader significance to injury...
22/01/25. CXC considers the use of intermediaries to assist vulnerable witnesses to give evidence in personal injury proceedings.
Background
On 16 September 2007, the Claimant (who...
18/12/24. Date of judgment: 8 November 2024
FXS considered issues of costs where a claimant had not succeeded in establishing negligence at trial but was successful on other issues...
17/12/24. Date of judgment: 6 November 2024
Alton is an important decision for practitioners bringing and responding to claims arising from road traffic accidents where issues of i...
22/11/24. Date of judgment: 23 October 2024
This significant costs judgment concerned when a client can apply to have their solicitor’s bill of costs assessed under section 70 of ...
19/11/24. Date of judgment: 24 October 2024
In BJB, In the Matter of [2024] EWCOP 59 (T2) the Court of Protection considered a seriously injured party’s application to be released f...
16/10/24. What are the duties of claimants’ lawyers once a defendant serves evidence of fundamental dishonesty? By continuing to act on a CFA to trial, do those lawyers expose th...
14/10/24. Date of judgment : 20 September 2024.
On 2 July 2018 Mr Wilson suffered life-threatening and life-changing injuries after being repeatedly and viciously stabbed by a fello...
18/09/24. The Ministry of Justice (‘MoJ’) has published its latest quarterly civil justice statics for April – June 2024.
These include a number of interesting points for persona...
13/09/24. Case: Claire Smyth v British Airways plc and Easyjet Airline Company Limited [2024] EWHC 2173 (KB)
Date of judgment: 2 September 2024
Smyth v British Airways is a nota...
22/08/24. Date of judgment: 1 August 2024
HHJ Paul Matthews sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge considered a number of consequential matters following a three week trial where th...
12/06/25. The case concerns an appeal by four former employees of 2 Sisters Food Group Ltd, who alleged that they contracted Covid-19 due to workplace safety failures in June 202...
10/06/25. Date of judgment: 6 June 2025
The Divisional Court’s judgment in these joined contempt cases following a Hamid hearing heard on 23 May 2025 has received wide-spread attent...
20/05/25. In Glaister, the Court had sent out a draft judgment in a judicial review case relating to a coroner’s decision. Specifically, this was circulated in the form of a ‘con...
16/05/25. Radoslav Pashamov v (1) Leon Taylor and (2) Edward Vinson Limited [2025] EWHC 1035 (KB)
Date of judgment: 30 April 2025
Simon Tinkler sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge ...
17/04/25. In Mather v Basran , the High Court addressed several issues surrounding an adjournment request made by the Defendant, Mr Rattan, on medical grounds during a trial involv...
15/04/25 . Laura Attersley v UK Insurance Limited [2025] EWHC 884 (KB)
Date of judgment: 11 April 2025
This claim arose from unremarkable circumstances: a claim for personal ...
19/03/25. In Morris v Williams [2025] EWHC 218 (KB) , District Judge Dodsworth considered whether a letter from the Claimant’s former solicitor, which contained proposals to settle ...
24/02/25. Date of judgment: 21 January 2025
Introduction
An important point of civil procedure recently arose in this claim for breach of contract and tortious conspiracy which can...
23/01/25. Smith is the latest decision in the long-running trench warfare between credit hire companies and defendant insurers on the issue of non-party costs orders (NCPOs). Des...
21/01/25. Date of judgment: 20 December 2024.
Practitioners making hasty applications for default judgment ought to keep in mind the law of unexpected consequences. Applications f...
16/12/24. Date of judgment: 6 November 2024
This appeal was unusual because it is a rare example of the Court of Appeal intervening to reverse a decision to set aside the strike o...
13/12/24. Date of judgment: 6 November 2024
In PMC , the High Court provided instructive guidance on reporting restrictions in the clinical negligence context.
Background
The Claimant...
21/11/24. Date of judgment: 24 May 2024
How does a finding of fundamental dishonesty in respect of a claimant’s personal injury claim impact their right to recover damage for prop...
18/11/24. Date of judgment: 23 October 2024
The Supreme Court has handed down an important decision on the duty of care in negligence. Tindall revisits the vexed question in English...
17/10/24. Date of judgment: 2 October 2024.
Mr Reynolds was found by HHJ Brown sitting with a jury at Canterbury County Court to have been falsely imprisoned by Kent Police for a ...
15/10/24. Whilst it is not unusual for special measures to be imposed in criminal and family law trials involving vulnerable parties, they are a less common feature in the civil ...
20/09/24. Case: Peter Jenkins v Thurrock Council [2024] EWHC 2248 (KB)
Date of judgment: 9 September 2024
Managing the costs of costs management is brought into sharp focus by the re...
16/09/24. The updated ‘Clinical Negligence Claims Agreement 2024’ has been launched, replacing the ‘Covid-19 Clinical Negligence Protocol’ established in 2020. This updated agree...
21/08/24 . This case provides an interesting commentary on the issue of expert witnesses and apparent bias.
Facts
Biggadike was a clinical negligence action against two defendants o...
20/08/24. This case, an application for committal for contempt of court, is noteworthy for the extent of evidence which came from the Defendant himself in the form of social medi...