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Research for the Ministry of Justice has disclosed a public lack of awareness of before-the-event legal expenses insurance revealing that less than one in four people have heard of either before-the-event (BTE) or after-the-event (ATE) legal..

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

Appeared in issue: Volume 26 No. 10 - 01 December 2007

Investors in litigation

The following is an extract from Cook on Costs 2008 to be published shortly by Butterworths Lexis Nexis. Following a Civil Justice Council recommendation that consideration be given to the use of third party funding of litigation and a decision of..

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

Appeared in issue: Volume 26 No. 10 - 01 December 2007

Protective costs order

R (A and others) (Disputed Children) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2007] EWHC 2494 (Admin)

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

Appeared in issue: Volume 26 No. 10 - 01 December 2007

Effect of wasted costs order

R (on the application of Hide and others) v Staffordshire County Council [2007] EWHC 2441 (Admin); All ER (D) 402 (Oct); NLJ 2 November

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

Appeared in issue: Volume 26 No. 10 - 01 December 2007

Privilege on detailed assessments

In an article on costs privilege in the New Law Journal of 21 September and reproduced in the ALCD Journal for November, the costs team at Kings Chambers considered how privileged material is dealt with during detailed assessments. The article..

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

Appeared in issue: Volume 26 No. 10 - 01 December 2007

MIB arbitration

Writing in the APIL PI Focus Issue Five, Andrew Campbell of Withy King drew attention to a decision handed down on 25 June. The claim of a victim of a hit-and-run accident was not accepted by the MIB or by the arbitrator on a subsequent oral..

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

Appeared in issue: Volume 26 No. 10 - 01 December 2007

Who was the winner?

Cantor Gaming Ltd v Gameaccount Global Ltd [2007] EWHC 1914 ChD 25 September

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

Appeared in issue: Volume 26 No. 10 - 01 December 2007

‘The cab-rank rule’

An informal vote following a seminar debate at the Bar Council annual conference resulted in an overwhelming majority to retain the cab-rank rule, which prevents barristers cherry-picking cases by forcing them to accept the next one in line –..

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

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Counsel missing a point

Bandwidth Shipping Corporation v Intaari CA TLR 31 October

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

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Arbitration agreement stands alone

Fiona Trust & Holding Corporation and others v Privalov and others HL TLR 25 October

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

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Ancillary relief agreement binding without court order

Soulsbury v Soulsbury [2007] EWCA Civ 969; CA TLR 14 November

Online Published Date: 01 December 2007

Appeared in issue: Volume 26 No. 10 - 01 December 2007