Temple Legal Protection is excited to announce that it is sponsoring the Insolvency Litigation Conference 2019, on 10 September at Queen Mary University, West Smithfield Campus, London, EC1A 7BE. Agenda Registration from 8.45am 9.30 Cross border restructuring and insolvencies after Brexit Jeremy Goldring QC, South Square Chambers & Mathew Newman, Partner, Ogier 10.10 Defrauding creditors […]

By David Pipkin – Director, Underwriting Division By way of introduction, my predictions in the January newsletter of a bumpy ride in 2019 seem to be bearing out. Below I pick up on a few of those points in order to keep you informed of the key issues impacting on litigators and claimants in the […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager. Temple has been insuring media and communications litigation cases for many years and is the principal insurer in the ongoing phone hacking litigation. Recently, starting with Data Protection Act claims, we have been turning our minds to see what new issues might be litigated by our media law clients […]

In March this year a Northamptonshire businesswoman celebrated the end of a 2½ year fraudulent misrepresentation legal dispute that threatened her with bankruptcy. Wilson Browne Solicitors approached Temple Legal Protection for litigation insurance cover; together they were able to help a young entrepreneur end a legal nightmare. In July of 2016 Amanda Phipps’ business decided […]

Insights on Unfair Prejudice Actions and Access to Disbursement Funding When setting up any business, the principal founders will inevitably have to trust each other in seeking achieving an agreed commercial objective. If that turns out not to be the case and the business relationship breaks down, under company law an unfair prejudice action can […]

It has long been thought that whilst a litigation funder can be liable for the other side’s costs in litigation, its liability for such costs would be limited to the level of funding it gave its client in the case. Such was the principle that was said to have been established in Arkin v Borchard […]