Costs: Interesting times

After the discount rate cut, Paul Jones predicts increased legal disputes over interest on legal costs ‘Interest on legal costs is calculated from the date of the order giving a party the right to costs, rather than the date when those costs were assessed, the so-called incipitur rule.’While the legal and insurance professions come to …
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Funding: Counting the cost(s)

Nick Rowles-Davies discusses the future of third-party funding ‘Third-party litigation funding is the process by which a funder, unconnected to the parties to the litigation, provides the financial resources to a client to pay their legal fees in return for a share of the proceeds of the successful claim.’As law firms try to climb out …
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Review: A year in the life

Mark Fowles looks back at the year’s important personal injury cases ‘English law has always been nervous about dealing with issues of causation The modern test is a test of policy. The first test is predominantly factual. The second gathers up much of the traditional language that lawyers use in attempting to set a limit …
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