Legal Cost Specialists

January 2013

Mesothelioma, success fees and ATE insurance

Another of the anomalies relating to the piecemeal introduction of the Jackson reforms is the treatment of those bringing claims for mesothelioma. A policy decision has been made to postpone the end to recoverability of success fees and ATE premiums in these cases. The government explained, when announcing this decision: “Rather, we will implement the

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SG v Hewitt

I note the Court of Appeal’s decision in SG v Hewitt [2012] EWCA Civ 1053 has begun to cause problems for the courts trying to determine in what circumstances the normal Part 36 rules should be disapplied. If only someone had been able to predict that this would happen. On an entirely different subject, my

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RTA portal fees

The lobbying over the Government’s proposals to slash RTA portal fixed fees has thrown up some interesting arguments. The Law Society has waded into the debate to argue that there is “substantial evidence” that the RTA portal fee should go up by £100, rather than down by £700. The Law Society has based this on

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