By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 6 minutes 44 seconds) Third Party Funding, Group Proceedings and Litigation Insurance – Sections 10 and Sections 20 to 22 of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018. You may feel you’ve already heard too much about Third Party Funding and Group Proceedings, […]

(Estimated reading time: 5 minute 15 seconds) With several challenges currently facing the world of clinical negligence, Temple recently invited a number of leading clinical negligence practitioners to the Royal Society of Arts in London, to discuss some of the hot topics within the industry and how they could be addressed. Myself and my colleague, […]

(Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 39 seconds) This was a central issue in the recent Court of Appeal case of Paccar Inc v Road Haulage Association Ltd [2021] EWCA Civ 299 (05 March 2021). Litigation funding agreements (“LFA”) and damages-based agreements (“DBA”) are both forms of litigation funding. Both are ways to facilitate access to […]

By Sam Knight, Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 23 seconds) Philip Warren & Son Limited v Lidl Great Britain Ltd & Ors [2021] EWHC 2372 (Ch) This was a case concerning the common law tort of ‘passing off’ where, surprisingly, both the claim and the Defendant’s counterclaim were dismissed. The Court, perhaps also in […]

By Sam Knight, Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 19 seconds) Evans v Betesh Partnership [2021] EWCA Civ 1194 is a case concerning the professional liability of a solicitors’ firm and counsel in advising the claimant to settle a personal injury matter in 2011. Ms Evans suffered a traumatic brain injury in a road traffic […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 55 seconds) Property litigation is familiar territory for Temple but one area that often features prominently are claims arising out of the valuation of property. These claims are inevitably cyclical – a down-turn in the economy prompts lenders to look to the property against […]