The following is an edited version of the address given by Iain Stark, chairman of the Association of Costs Lawyers, at the recent launch of the Association’s new name, which appeared in Costs Lawyer magazine, and is reproduced with his kind permission: Henry Ford once said that coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is […]
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The Court of Appeal decision in Sousa v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2011] EWCA Civ 194 may be (but probably won’t be) the final word on what the law currently is in relation to recoverability of success fees. However, the Court went out of its way to give further support to the Jackson costs
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Judgment was handed down yesterday by the Court of Appeal in Sousa v London Borough of Waltham Forest [2011] EWCA Civ 194. This case concerned a claimant who suffered subsidence damage to his property caused by tree roots of a tree owned by the defendant. The claimant’s damages were insured under an insurance policy between
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In Sibthorpe & Morris v London Borough of Southwark [2011] EWCA Civ 25 the Court of Appeal declined to strike down as unlawful (on the basis of champerty) CFAs where the claimants’ solicitors agreed to indemnify the claimants against adverse costs orders. The February 2011 edition of Litigation Funding reported the claimants’ solicitors as saying
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In recent years the call for ever closer European integration has grown much quieter. Those in this country who argued that joining the single currency would lead to growth and economic stability have fallen strangely silent in light of events in Greece, Ireland, etc. However, going back a few years, those at the heart of
