Temple Legal Protection is delighted to announce it has signed a new five year contract for underwriting provision with RSA, one of the largest and strongest insurers in the UK. The arrangement sees Temple Legal Protection provide its customers with a comprehensive range of legal expenses insurance products with limits of up to £2.5m, backed […]

The NHS, supported by the British Medical Association (BMA) amongst others have made strong claims in a letter to the Justice Secretary that the legal costs of clinical negligence claims are crippling the NHS. Similar comments were made by the National Audit Office (NAO) in September last year and yet the case doesn’t hold water. […]

2018 will be a year of opportunity for those responding to change says Matthew Pascall: Senior Underwriting Manager, Temple Legal Protection. As we move forward into 2018, I share some insights likely to affect litigators over the coming months. Some will be anecdotal, some technical and, hopefully for the reader, all of significance in some […]

This year has been challenging for the legal industry: pre-LASPO cases are in decline and the new legislation is now being applied with some cases finding their way to the appeal court; abolition of tribunal fees has led to increased risk exposure for employers without appropriate BTE cover and legal services; and there have been […]

Four years ago the government introduced fees of up to £1200 for employment tribunal claimants with the premise being to reduce the number of malicious and unmeritorious claims. Much has been debated on subject since and I recall the appetite of both camps to advance their views. In one corner, the objectors voiced their concern […]

In another landmark ruling this year, the Court of Appeal has re-asserted that ‘block-rated’ ATE insurance premiums are recoverable in clinical negligence claims, even when the claim is settled before proceedings are issued or experts have been commissioned. Lord Justice Lewison dismissed the appeal of Peterborough & Stamford NHS trust v McMenemy and upheld the […]