Insights

The Court of Appeal has finally handed down judgment in the case of Budana v Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust. The issue of the assignment of Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) has been rumbling on fo...

I previously considered this subject in a blog in November 2014, which can be found here. I had been faced with the problem of an insolvent company in the context of an injury claim arising out of an...

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) has today announced the results of its consultation of the discount rate. The former Lord Chancellor, Liz Trust, announced in February 2017 that the discount rate was...

Lord Justice Jackson published his second review of the costs of civil litigation on 31 July 2017 and whilst it proposes significant changes, most claimant injury claim practitioners will be relieved...

Theresa May’s decision to call a snap general election last week has disrupted the Government’s plans to “reform” the bringing of injury claims. The government’s plan for  changes to inj...

On 7 December 2016, the Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss, confirmed that she would announce the review of the discount rate used when calculating future financial loss in injury claims by 31 January 2017. T...

I acted for Mr N in a claim for compensation following a road traffic accident in March 2012. It took me over four years to settle Mr N’s claim which is not normal for most injury cases but it was t...

Injury claimants have been hit with a double blow over the last two weeks. Firstly, on 11 November 2016, the Lord Chancellor, Liz Truss announced that Lord Justice Jackson had been commissioned to und...