By David Pipkin, Underwriting Director (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 14 seconds) In their most recent in-house roundtable event, The Law Society Gazette reported delegates commenting on the increasing amount of litigation and the size of claim. One factor was said to be increased litigation funding with the funders wanting large value cases with high […]

By David Pipkin, Non-Executive Director (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 9 seconds) I am obliged to Marie-Claire di Mambro at Keystone Law Solicitors for bringing to our attention a very recent High Court decision in the case of DSN v Blackpool Football Club Ltd [2020] EWHC 670 (QB) in which Mr Justice Griffiths ordered indemnity […]

Charity begins at home By David Pipkin – Director, Underwriting Division (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 21 seconds) It was Charles Dickens who said ‘Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door’. Whilst lawyers rarely get good press, there is little doubt about the generosity of the legal profession when it comes to charitable […]

(Estimated reading time: 1 minutes, 31 seconds) By David Pipkin – Director, Underwriting Division and observations from Terry Renouf of Renouf Mediation. The NHSR annual report records that the number of clinical negligence mediations increased by 110% (380) in the last year and that figure is likely to continue to increase significantly in coming years. […]

By David Pipkin Director, Underwriting Division and Jacob White, Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 5 minutes, 18 seconds) At a recent Professional Negligence Lawyers Association (PNLA) event, sponsored by Temple Legal Protection, our attention was drawn to an article providing the comments of Richard Beaty, counsel from Hailsham Chambers. Richard expressed the view that there was […]

By David Pipkin Director, Underwriting Division and Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 8 minutes, 36 seconds) This article was originally published in the August 2019 issue of ‘Litigation Funding’ magazine. Back in 2009, Litigation Funding published an article entitled ‘The case for business. Are commercial litigators finally waking up to CFAs?’ which […]