4th October, 2011
What's happening? Big court decision? Massive European judgement about widgets? Nope - as of 6 October 2011, firms must ensure that notepaper, website and emails say "Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority”. Yawn! This is al
More...27th September, 2011
An important change is being made to the Civil Procedural Rules which is going to require you to review all of your existing Part 36 offers. The CPR (Amendment No.2) Rules 2011, which come into effect on 1 October 2011, will overrule
More...20th September, 2011
So the Government wants to ban referral fees. We have all heard about this and Jack Straw's campaign (don't worry, I shall get to him later), but how exactly are they going to do this - and when? Well the answer
More...8th September, 2011
Oh my days. What a week. To say we have been busy is an understatement. Just a few days into our new financial year and we are 25% up on new policies written compared with September last year. And that's not to mention
More...1st September, 2011
Nope - I've not gone mad. The reason I have been quiet for a week is that Box Legal has just finished it's year end and so today is our 9th accounting year! Now for After the Event Insurers, 9 years
More...24th August, 2011
The runners and riders for the Ministry of Justice steeplechase that is the Jackson Implementation Working Committee have been announced. True to form, there are some old hands mentioned and the expected organisations. Interesting though, it is chaired
More...18th August, 2011
They will also be announcing that bears prefer the woods for defecating and, contrary to popular belief, The Pope appears to be Catholic. Big headline this in The Insurance Times. I mean come on - so they are going to remove recoverability
More...15th August, 2011
Still no call from the Ministry of Justice..... I shall therefore continue with my day job. A solicitor has asked me to write something about recovering After the Event Insurance premiums from defendant insurers. Apparantly, some insurers are mixing t
More...8th August, 2011
And so back to business. You may have spotted that the Ministry of Justice has announced that they are to form a working party to help to develop the court rules and regulations to enable the Jackson reforms to be implemented.
More...1st August, 2011
It was very kind of Kirsten to praise my blogs and indeed to hold the fort most impresively whilst I have been away. In actual fact, I could have probably managed the odd blog from the beach but I have
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