Fixed Recoverable Costs for lower value – clinical negligence claims – implementation delay update
By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 41 seconds) Temple had already reported in December 2023 that the supplementary consultation on disbursements was taking place with a closing date of 22nd December 2023. As of today the results of the consultation have not […]
Read moreLandmark Clinical Negligence Secondary Victim Appeal Ends in Disappointment for Claimants at the Supreme Court
By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 42 seconds) The Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment on conjoined clinical negligence cases concerning psychiatric injuries suffered by secondary victims. Specifically, the case of Paul which concerned a failure to diagnose a life-threatening condition […]
Read moreA Reversal of Fortunes? Costs enforcement and the imminent CPR changes
This article was first published in the April 2023 edition of the Law Society’s ‘Litigation Funding’ magazine By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 4 minutes 18 seconds) As you may have seen recently in the legal press, the civil procedure rules have been quietly […]
Read moreQOC(s) are they thinking?
By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 5 minutes 31 seconds) As everybody may now know, 6th April 2023 will see significant changes to CPR 44.14. From this date defendants will also be able to enforce costs orders up to the aggregate amount in money […]
Read moreClinical negligence case study – delayed diagnosis
Multi-million pound settlement for a case previously abandoned This case relates to a delay in diagnosing and treating meningitis and sepsis that settled at a capital equivalent value of £16m. We are pleased to report that one of our major partner law firms in London, Hodge Jones & Allen (HJA), has recently settled a multi-million […]
Read moreDisbursement funding update – five options, one real solution to the cost of costs?
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 6 seconds) We’re all looking at ways to save money; law firms should be too. Interest rates are climbing and will continue to do so for some time yet. Therefore, it could well be timely to now consider what disbursement funding options are available […]
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