Litigation/Dispute Resolution

The government would like to see more pre-action initiatives like the Official Injury Claim portal as part of its vision for the future of civil justice, minister Heidi Alexander said today.

Members of the public are more aware than ever about class actions and more positive about their outcomes, research has found.

The Lady Chief Justice yesterday complained to MPs about the government’s decisions to reduce the digitisation of civil justice and limit sitting days in the criminal courts.

A judge has strongly criticised an employment tribunal that copied most of its reasons from the respondent’s witness evidence or written submissions.

Parties that engage in formal pre-action dispute resolution should be exempt from any mandatory requirement to mediate post-issue, the Civil Justice Council has recommended.

A judge has condemned the London arm of a US law firm for sending a “disgraceful” letter to a competitor of one of its clients.

A retired deputy High Court judge is set to front a collective action worth billions of pounds alleging that Google has abused its dominant position in online search advertising.

A solicitor who sued a former client over three reviews on her firm’s Google Business profile failed to prove he actually posted them, a judge has ruled.

Two leading class action law firms have obtained a group litigation order to open up a new front against a motor manufacturer for something other than emissions defeat devices.

A judge’s comments on the lack of recourse against an unregulated costs draftsman should focus minds on this hole in legal regulation, the Association of Costs Lawyers has argued.

The first round of the diesel emissions litigation went to the claimants yesterday, with the High Court rejecting Mercedes’ bid to bind the court to decisions made by the German car regulator.

The Financial Conduct Authority is to ask the Supreme Court to make a quick decision on whether it will hear the appeal against the recent decision on car finance mis-selling.

A judge has condemned a solicitor for “the worst example of tampering with a file of papers that I have ever encountered” in reducing a bill claimed at nearly £260,000 to zero.

The Court of Appeal has refused to overturn a ruling that two former directors of a law firm were not in breach of their duties by taking preparatory steps to set up a competitor.

The claim that IP law firm Marks & Clerk overcharged thousands of small businesses by operating a ‘secret commissions’ scheme has been settled with payments but no admission of liability.