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Good news for struggling businesses, but will business interruption claims now be plain sailing?
29th January, 2021
The Supreme Court has handed down its judgment in the Covid-19 Business Interruption insurance test case, allowing all four of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)�??s appeals and unanimously dismissing those brought by 6 of the 8 In
More...Are All Claimants Covered? Arag Plc v Jones & Anor [2020]
22nd January, 2021
Mr Jones and Ms Gibson were joint tenants who brought an action against their Landlord for housing disrepair. Their Landlord (Mr Francis) then counterclaimed.
More...High Court rules: Unsealed claim forms not good service
11th January, 2021
In Ideal Shopping Direct Ltd & Ors v Visa Europe Ltd v Ors, Mr Justice Morgan ruled that the unsealed forms served on the last day permitted were not claim forms and therefore serving them was not good service. As a result, the claims were deemed out
More...Experts concern about further reform of personal injury market
11th January, 2021
A group of industry experts have agreed that extra care needs to be taken before any further reforms to low value personal injury claims are made.
More...Small Claims taking almost a year to come to trial - Litigation in the time of a Pandemic
5th January, 2021
Official figures have revealed that small claims are taking almost three months longer to come to trial than a year ago as the pandemic puts pressure on the county courts.
More...Claimant Lawyers urge Lord Chief to step in on whiplash reforms
23rd November, 2020
The Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) has made a submission to the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Burnett, to support an urgent review of the government's proposed tariff of damages for next April's whiplash reforms.
More...MOJ RTA portal to go live April 2021? Only time will tell...
17th November, 2020
There had been much speculation surrounding whether or not the MOJ would be ready to launch the new RTA Portal in spring of next year, but it appears the MOJ at least remain optimistic of meeting this deadline.
More...Record fine for breaches of the indemnity principle
13th November, 2020
The Co-operative Legal Services (CLS) has been hit with a massive fine last month of just over £143,000 for failings within its accounting procedures. The fine by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is the largest so far to be imposed o
More...Treatment of expert evidence which is 'uncontroverted': Griffiths v TUI UK Ltd [2020]
21st October, 2020
The recent judgement of Spencer J in Griffiths v TUI UK Limited [2020] has provided important guidance on whether it is the court's role to examine the contents of an expert's report where it is undisputed.
More...PPI 'Plevin' claims - There's still time
22nd September, 2020
PPI claims have been big news recently, as everyone was made aware that the deadline for making new mis-sold Payment Product Protection insurance (PPI) claims expired in August 2019. But was this strictly true?
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