Bon voyage to Paul Bonner – a well-earned retirement
Friday 14 October 2022 marked time-up for one of our longest serving members of Temple Legal Protection. After 22 (twenty-two) years, Paul pulled the plug on his employment with us and made his decision to retire. With 40 years’ plus experience in the insurance industry, we have certainly lost an extremely experienced colleague. Paul has […]
Read moreFixed costs – a fix that doesn’t fix what needs fixing – Part 2
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 3 seconds) With the GB pound sinking to an all-time low against the US dollar during the government original budget proposals – what else could our leaders do to make things worse? Well, for the legal sector, guess what… Sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly the […]
Read moreFair Rules for Unfair Prejudice Claims – Primekings & Ors v King & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 1943
(Estimated reading time: 1 minute 23 seconds) In Primekings v King the Court of Appeal recently confirmed the validity of the approach in Graham v Every [2015] 1 BCLC 41, [2014] EWCA Civ 191 to tackling unfair prejudice claims under s994 Companies Act 2006. It must now be shown that there is a ‘causal connection’ […]
Read moreP36 acceptances and the ATE premium; an argument over “costs”
(Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 0 seconds) Many arguments have been advanced since LASPO attacking the recoverability of After the Event (“ATE”) insurance premiums, but the recent decision in Dance v East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ors [2022] EWHC B9 (Costs) has found that the ATE premium of £5,266.01 was payable in […]
Read moreJohn Durbin Joins Temple Legal Protection as Senior Business Development Manager
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 15 seconds) Many appointment announcements are full of ‘corporate speak’ so we’ve taken a different approach and gone ‘straight to video’ to introduce John Durbin, Temple’s new Senior Business Development Manager for our clinical negligence and personal injury team. If first impressions count, he […]
Read moreQueen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People
(Estimated reading time: 1 minute 46 seconds) Working with children and adults with physical and learning disabilities Here at Temple we remain committed to our charitable endeavours and to support selected activities of our law firm customers. In this newsletter we asked The Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People (whom we have supported for several […]
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