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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Part 36: Proceed with caution

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | The Commercial Litigation Journal | March/April 2018 #78
Maura McIntosh offers a useful update on dealing with CPR Part 36 ‘If you want to preserve any costs protection of an earlier offer, do not suggest in a subsequent offer that the costs consequences will run only from that offer.‘ This article considers a number of practical points arising from four recent decisions relating …

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