ATE Insurance Blog
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A Night of Glamour and Awards
30th November, 2011
On a clear night in London last week, Thursday 24th November, dressed in their finery, the Box Legal Team consisting of myself (Kirsten), Daniel, Simon and Jon headed to the Riverbank Plaza Hotel for the Personal Injury Awards sponsored by Eclipse.
More...We are off to see the wizard
21st November, 2011
Yes well I am obviously losing the plot. I have spent the last two weeks doing snagging lists for our new website. The developers are only 3 weeks late which isn't bad if you ignore the previous deadlines we set
More...Standing Still Moving Forward
8th November, 2011
We have our auditors in today. How do they do it? I have to stomach one day of going through figures and cross referencing against files and documents. It is so boring! I have a headache and they have only been
More...Scary Referral Fee Ban
31st October, 2011
It's Halloween. Last year my teenage daughter forgot it was the 31st of October and answered the front door in the dark to be confronted by some pretty scary masks - she let out an ear piercing scream and slammed our
More...Referral Fee Ban 'Could be tricky'
21st October, 2011
Says the Government. Well I won't tell you I told them so but.... You see the problem they have is, money changes hands in all sorts of transactions in return for business and so although they are called 'referral fees' and have been
More...£9.7 million After the Event Insurance Policy Allowed by Court of Appeal
14th October, 2011
The Court of Appeal has just heard a costs appeal in Motto & Ors v Trafigura - the group action brought by Leigh Day and Company on behalf of 30,000 Ivory Coast claimants who sufferred illness following the fly tipping
More...Coming Soon - After the Event Insurance Provider to Launch New Website
11th October, 2011
Not much of a headline this. After all, I am talking about our own website as you may have gathered. It has been a long time coming. Our old site grew with our business and so has become a bit of a
More...Are you ready for the 6th October?
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...Part 36 offers - Carver v BAA does not apply to offers made after 1st October 2011
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...Referral Fees - The Case for the Defence
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
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