A 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 […]
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QOC(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 […]
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10 Years of LASPO – what happened?
By John Durbin, Senior Business Development Manager (Estimated reading time: 4 minutes 27 seconds) It seems amazing to think that we are 10 years on from The Jackson Reforms and LASPO – the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, which came into force in April 2013. In advance of some significant amendments to […]
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Charities update 2023 – She’s Shining Fundraising Lunch hosted by the Child Brain Injury Trust
By Lisa Fricker, Solicitor Services Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 37 seconds) Temple remains committed to our charitable endeavours. Our aim throughout the year is to organise fundraising events with each charity, as well as participating in events organised directly by the charities to raise much needed funds for exceptionally good causes. This month […]
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‘Did you tell us what you think?’
By John Durbin, Senior Business Development Manager (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 20 seconds) As 2022 drew to a close, we invited all of our personal injury and clinical negligence coverholders to give us feedback on how we had performed during the year, as well as their thoughts on the important developments the market could […]
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Looking backwards and forwards – personal injury and clinical negligence developments
By David Pipkin, Non-Executive Director (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 45 seconds) Below we take a brief look back at 2022 to give you a sense of where we might be headed during the coming months. There’s the “Paul” case, the retirement of Paul Bonner, new beginnings and plenty more. In what was a very […]
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Temple Legal Protection Appoint Matthew Pascall as Legal Director
Temple Legal Protection, a market-leading provider of legal expenses insurance, today announced that Matthew Pascall joined its board of directors on 2nd December 2022. Matthew joined Temple in November 2017 as a Senior Underwriting Manager with overall responsibility for Temple’s Commercial ATE insurance underwriting department. Matthew’s new role sees him joining the board as Legal […]
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Chris Wait – Chairman, Temple Legal Protection
It is with great sadness that we regret to inform you that our founder, owner and Chairman Chris Wait passed away on Friday, 23 December peacefully at home. Chris began his insurance career in 1985 and had been specifically involved in legal expenses insurance since 1992. He has been a significant force in the development […]
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Charity Focus: The Brain and Spinal Injury Centre
Providing rehabilitation and recovery for people with neurological injury and illness At Temple we are committed to supporting our selected charitable endeavours. In this article we asked one of our charity partners, the Brain and Spinal Injury Centre (BASIC), to share their story. Clients and purpose BASIC has been based in Salford for over 30 […]
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