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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Costs In Issue: Issuing protective proceedings – a pre-emptive strike or friendly fire?

Ropewalk Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | June 2015 #136
Shilpa Shah explains how withdrawing a premature case can still lead to a costs order ‘The case of Clydesdale Bank plc v Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward [2014] has firmly brought the risk of adverse cost consequences to mind and may have much wider ranging implications in personal injury cases in respect of claims which are …

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Multiple Defendants: Who to sue? Practical and cost considerations

Cloisters (Chambers of Robin Allen QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | December 2014/January 2015 #131
In the first of two articles Hannah Godfrey considers the tactical and practical considerations associated with multiple defendant claims. The next, in the February issue, will review the substantive law ‘Where the injury is divisible, you may need to consider the merits of proceeding against one or more defendants separately rather than joining multiple parties …

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