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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
23 October 2023
It’s a fix! The Fixed Recoverable Costs regime and the impact on professional negligence claims
The 1 October 2023 saw the Fixed Recoverable Costs (“FRC”) regime extend beyond personal injury claims in the fast track to almost every area of civil litigation, including professional negligence, and sees the introduction of a new Intermediate Track.
We address in this article, the impact of the FRC regime on Professional Negligence claims, and how this affects the recoverability of costs.
13 October 2023
Disputing a will of an illiterate testator
A will dispute in the High Court concerning an illiterate testator has received a lot of media attention recently. The deceased’s three eldest children are said to be contesting his will on the basis that it was a mistake that they had been disinherited because their father could not have read his will.
6 October 2023
Contentious Trust and Probate Summer Round-Up 2023
This contentious trust and probate litigation summer round-up provides a summary of a cross-section of reported decisions handed down in the courts of England and Wales in the period June 2023 - September 2023.
26 September 2023
Should insolvency practitioners be concerned by the supreme court’s latest decision regarding the enforceability of litigation funding agreements?
In a highly anticipated decision on July 26, 2023, the UK Supreme Court ruled that litigation funding agreements (LFAs), where a litigation funder gets a portion of the damages awarded to the claimant, are considered damages-based agreements (DBAs) under the Courts and Legal Services Act 190 ("CLSA").
31 July 2023
Civil Fraud Quarterly Round-Up: Q2 2023
This quarterly civil fraud update provides a summary of reported decisions handed down in the courts of England and Wales in the period of April - June 2023.
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Claims against banks
- Costs Law
- Court of Protection Disputes
- Cross-border litigation
- Defamation, privacy & reputation
- Fraud
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Intellectual property claims
- Legal updates
- Litigation process
- Professional negligence
- Shareholder and Boardroom Disputes
- Wills, trusts and inheritance disputes