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Although a fixture of the US legal system, collective actions have not traditionally formed a significant part of the English legal landscape.

What does 2024 hold for Personal Injury Lawyers? Last year I summarised what was coming up in 2023 to the theme of Kylie songs.

Dispute Resolution analysis: On appeal, an order for disclosure against neutral Interim Administrators of the estate of a deceased person, requiring the search of review of non-contemporaneous internal documents...

Sara Ibrahim discusses AI and service clauses considerations for commercial dispute lawyers. The following is covered in this webinar...

Dispute Resolution analysis: The Court of Appeal has considered complex questions arising on an appeal of a decision dismissing a challenge to amendments to group litigation cartel proceedings...

An application made to reopen grounds of appeal on which permission was refused under CPR r. 52.30 has failed. There was no significant failure in the reasoning of the judge...

Following the Court of Appeal's decision in Hudson v Hathway – in which Mr Hudson relinquished his beneficial interest in a co-owned property by email – I wondered if I should rethink my habit of signing off texts "Cxxx".

As injury lawyers, our regular ADR diet consists of Joint Settlement Meetings or Mediations, not so much Early Neutral Evaluation (ENE). It seems like the mythical unicorn of ADR – oft spoken of but rarely...

Dispute Resolution analysis: A large award of damages and/or equitable compensation has been made against the directors and connected companies of a company which was used to perpetrate...

There once was a time when you might turn up to an inquest with little or no pre-inquest disclosure. Over time this practice has generally been abolished (although some offenders remain!).

It is easy to be lulled into a false sense of security that the formal requirements for an expert report, as set out in CPR 35.10, Practice Direction 35 and the Guidance for the Instruction of Experts in Civil Claims...

The case raised the interesting question whether section 84(1) of the Law of Property Act 1925 confer power on the Upper Tribunal to discharge a restriction arising under a covenant...

Following trial, Mr Justice Richards had to determine various consequential matters. The key question was whether an order made pursuant to s 19 of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 was in interest...

C and D1 had entered a contract for sale of a development site in March 2019 for a price of £2.565 million. The contract was a detailed contract to allow C, the local authority...

Jamal Demachkie led Lina Mattsson in the Upper Tribunal. The appeal raised various points of law.

A First-tier Tribunal decision raises significant questions about whether all joint tenants must be parties to Rent Repayment Order applications, potentially creating a major procedural...

Nadolig Llawen, annwyl ddarllenydd! The Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 ("the Act") came into effect on 1 December 2022...

Dispute Resolution analysis: Andrew Sutcliffe KC has provided a wide-ranging analysis of a number of aspects of costs principles in a consequentials hearing following a trial...