By Matthew Pascall, Legal Director – Head of Commercial (Estimated reading time: 8 minutes 8 seconds) Temple is currently insuring claims brought by businesses who have relied on brokers to arrange energy contracts but who knew little or nothing about the commission paid by energy suppliers to the brokers. Read on for what we’ve found […]

By Matthew Pascall, Legal Director – Head of Commercial (Estimated reading time: 4 minutes 13 seconds) On the 4th of March the Rt. Hon. Alex Chalk MP, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary State for Justice, made a statement in the House of Commons announcing the Government’s intention to introduce legislation to “… address the impacts […]

By Matthew Pascall, Legal Director – Head of Commercial (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 39 seconds) This article is from Temple’s new Commercial Guide to Disbursement Funding and provides a clear explanation of the roles of litigation funding and After-The-Event (ATE) insurance. Also, how funders and insurers such as Temple work together for commercial disputes. […]

Data Protection Claims from an ATE Underwriter’s Perspective By Matthew Pascall, Legal Director and Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 6 minutes 25 seconds) As the amount of personal data stored and transferred electronically increases at an exponential rate, data breach claims are going to form an ever-increasing part of the media cases we insure. […]

FKJ v RVT, QGN & CBN [2022] EWHC 411 (QB) & (subsequently) FKJ v RVT [2023] EWHC 3 (KB) Private messages in a Work Setting – Misuse of Private Information – Abuse of Process & Strike Out – References to the terms of a Pt 36 offer at an interlocutory hearing. By Matthew Pascall, Legal […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 7 minutes 13 seconds) Banks v Cadwalladr [2022] EWHC 1417 Often defendants do not consider the need for after-the-event insurance as those defending defamation claims are often well-funded and resourced publishers who chose to take the risk of paying the claimant’s costs “on the chin.” Some […]