The UK Government has imposed a higher rate of premium tax on all insurance policies. As a result of the spring government budget, Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) is due to rise from its current level of 9.5% to 10% on Saturday 01 October 2016. Please find below Temple Legal Protection Limited’s summary of the changes […]

Temple are proud to be sponsoring our Underwriting Director, David Pipkin and Senior Underwriter, Kim Alexander who will be part of a team of now 17 climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the world’s tallest free standing mountain. This is the biggest physical challenge the two of them have ever faced. All team members have been training hard […]

A recent case insured by Temple Legal Protection has led to a landmark decision, particularly as far as lenders and surveyors are concerned. Siding with lenders in the professional negligence case of Tiuta International Limited (in Liquidation) v De Villiers Surveyors Limited, the court’s decision is set to have extensive ramifications across the whole lending […]

The Adjudication Pilot for Professional Negligence Claims has been re-launched after the Master of the Rolls appointed Mr Justice Fraser and Mrs Justice Carr to chair the group in December 2015. Dentons’ Tim Constable hosted a packed launch event back on 25 May 2016, where Lord Justice Briggs gave the keynote address. You can access […]

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones” Not for the first time Justice Jackson has had to calm the fears of the legal world, this time over his proposed changes to costs. His idea to fix the cost of all claims up to £250,000 was later described as just “a […]

In this article, Andrew Perfect and Hugh Rimmer of 3PB Barristers analyse the Coroners Court Statistics that were published last month and their impact on the path through the litigation process for clinical negligence practitioners. Back on 12 May, the Office of the Chief Coroner – for only the second time – released annual statistics […]