9 September 2011

The Government has announced it will ban the payment of referral fees in personal injury cases.  

Costs lawyers and law costs draftsmen not engaged in defamation proceedings may be forgiven for not getting too exited about the 57th Update to the Civil Procedure Rules extending the Defamation Proceedings Costs Management Scheme for another year. However, to do so would be a big mistake.  It would equally be a mistake for those