Procedure: A tricky end

Shoosmiths LLP | The Commercial Litigation Journal | March/April 2019 #84
Michael Bennett discusses discontinuance ‘The best approach will usually be to try and demonstrate some form of unreasonable conduct by the defendant and use this to reduce the percentage of the defendant’s costs that the claimant is ordered to pay.’ When a claimant discontinues a claim it may feel like the end of a long …

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Litigation tactics: Win, lose or pay either way

9 Gough Square (Chambers of Andrew Ritchie QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | September 2018 #168
Johnathan Payne discusses how the way you pursue or defend a claim can impact on costs ‘This state of affairs has generated far more litigation in areas such as discontinuance, fundamental dishonesty and strike out.’ In 1931 Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. The book was set in a futuristic world state of genetically-modified citizens …

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