ADVOCACY FEES FOR LATE SETTLEMENT OR ADJOURNMENT
4 costs zoominars: September and October 2024 Recordings will be sent to you, whether or not you are able to attend each Zoominar and the price includes as many people as you want in your...
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CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES AMENDMENTS FROM 1 OCTOBER 2024
4 costs zoominars: September and October 2024 Recordings will be sent to you, whether or not you are able to attend each Zoominar and the price includes as many people as you want in your...
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FIXED RECOVERABLE COSTS AMENDMENTS: EFFECTIVE 1 OCTOBER 2024
4 costs zoominars: September and October 2024 Recordings will be sent to you, whether or not you are able to attend each Zoominar and the price includes as many people as you want in your...
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CONTRACTUAL COSTS OVERRIDING FIXED RECOVERABLE COSTS
4 costs zoominars: September and October 2024 Recordings will be sent to you, whether or not you are able to attend each Zoominar and the price includes as many people as you want in your...
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ISSUE 282
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View ArticleFIXED RECOVERABLE COSTS EXTENSION: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
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View ArticleCLARITY RE SUCCESS FEE IN FUNDING DOCUMENT
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CONTINGENCY FEE AGREEMENT UPHELD
4 costs zoominars: September and October 2024 Recordings will be sent to you, whether or not you are able to attend each Zoominar and the price includes as many people as you want in your...
View ArticleFIXED RECOVERABLE COSTS AND MEDICAL REPORTING AGENCY FEES
4 costs zoominars: September and October 2024 Recordings will be sent to you, whether or not you are able to attend each Zoominar and the price includes as many people as you want in your...
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THE CONSUMER CONTRACTS (INFORMATION, CANCELLATION AND ADDITIONAL...
4 costs zoominars: September and October 2024 Recordings will be sent to you, whether or not you are able to attend each Zoominar and the price includes as many people as you want in your...
View ArticleEMPLOYMENT ZOOMINARS FOR EMPLOYERS AND STAFF
Our Consultant Solicitor, Leah Waller, trained by me, is conducting two employment Zoominars and the times and dates are set out below. Recordings will be sent to you, whether or not you are able to...
View ArticleCAN’T SERVE BECAUSE COURT FAILED TO ISSUE: CLAIM STRUCK OUT: WE MAY AS WELL...
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View ArticleMASTERCARD CASE: A MASTER CLASS IN MADNESS
This first appeared in my twice weekly Newsletter – Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems And So Much More… Subscription runs until 31 December 2025 and is £500 plus VAT, and can be booked here. A...
View ArticlePRO BONO CONDITIONAL COSTS ORDERS: UNCERTAIN AND NOT COMPLIANT WITH SECTION...
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View ArticleHIGH COURT CLAIM PROPERLY ISSUED EVEN THOUGH SENT TO WRONG OFFICE
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View ArticleCONDITIONAL FEE AGREEMENT SUCCESS FEE NOT RECOVERABLE AS PART OF...
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View ArticlePART 36: SOME REMINDERS
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View ArticleINDEMNITY PRINCIPLE, VOID AND VOIDABLE RETAINERS, LEGAL AID, INQUESTS, AND...
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View ArticleNEW COURT TELEPHONY SERVICE: THERE WON’T BE ONE
This first appeared in my twice weekly Newsletter – Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems And So Much More… Subscription runs until 31 December 2025 and is £500 plus VAT, and can be booked here. I...
View ArticleCONTINGENCY FEE AGREEMENTS AND INTERMEDIATE TRACK CASES: STAGE 1
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View ArticleJUDGE CONFIRMS PAPER HEARINGS TAKE MORE TIME THAN ORAL HEARINGS
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View ArticleEARLY RETIREMENT
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View ArticleGAGA LAW
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View ArticleSOLICITORS CLIENT ACCOUNTS
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View ArticleSOLICITORS REGULATION AUTHORITY CONSULTING ON ACCOUNTANTS’ REPORTS
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View ArticleSOLICITORS REGULATION AUTHORITY TO CONSULT ON COMPENSATION FUND
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View ArticleSHAM LITIGATION WARNING TO SOLICITORS BY THE SOLICITORS REGULATION AUTHORITY
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View ArticleCOMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY WARNS AGAINST UNREGULATED ADVISERS – WELL,...
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GRIM DAY FOR JUSTICE: MITCHELL CONSIDERED
Here is a blog & comments from 2014. Is this where the real slide into the current situation where justice comes a long way behind administration, began? This first appeared in my twice weekly...
View ArticleHIGH COURT DISMISSES COMMITTAL PROCEEDINGS IN FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY CASE:...
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View ArticleWITHOUT PREJUDICE AND FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY
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Denton Resource: Zoominars
DENTON RESOURCE SPECIAL I am delighted to link the just published 2025 edition of the Denton Resource by Dr Rachel Segal of St John’s Chambers here. About the resource This publication provides brief,...
View ArticleCOURT DELAYS, OFFICIALS HAVING JUDICIAL POWER, REGULATORS OUT OF CONTROL:...
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View Article2025 ZOOMINAR DETAILS
Kerry will be doing a minimum of 12 Zoominars in 2025 and below are details of the first five with more dates and topics to be released in due course. All will be from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm with...
View ArticleASSISTED DYING AND HIGH COURT JUDGES
Like many, if not most people, I have mixed feelings about the issue of assisted dying and need not recite the reasons for that here and the fact that a full High Court Judge had to give authority...
View ArticleCOURT OF PROTECTION: IMPORTANT GUIDANCE ON ASSESSING MENTAL CAPACITY
This first appeared in my twice weekly Newsletter – Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems And So Much More… In CT v Lambeth LBC [2025] EWCOP 6 (T3) (12 February 2025) the Court of Protection gave...
View Article2025 Zoominars
It’s not too late to register and attend my first Zoominar which is taking place on Tuesday 4 March 4pm to 5pm – recordings sent whether or not you attend the live session. Kerry will be doing a...
View ArticleLADY CHIEF JUSTICE: ANNUAL EVIDENCE TO HOUSE OF LORDS CONSTITUTION COMMITTEE
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View ArticlePAVING THE WAY TO TOTALITARIANISM
Here is one I have written for the Solicitors Journal in 2014. As lawyers we see the current onslaught from the government, the Jackson Courts and the regulators to be an attack on us. It is, but it...
View ArticleSWEET RA
Here is one I wrote for the Solicitors Journal in 2013. The SRA has taken the extraordinary decision not to ban firms from offering inducements to potential clients, even though the Ministry of...
View ArticleJUDGES IN DEEP CRISIS: 88.48% INTEND TO QUIT EARLY
The 2024 UK Judicial Attitude Survey, believed to be the only one of its type and scope in the world, shows the deep crisis within the judiciary, and by that, I mean the concerns of the judiciary and...
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CAPE TOWN OPERA IN LONDON: FRIDAY 11 APRIL: 6:00 PM: FREE!
In other news… In another life, I am a Trustee of the UK Friends of Cape Town Opera, a registered charity in the UK run by supporters who promote Cape Town Opera’s work in South Africa and abroad in...
View ArticleLAWYERS AND THE PRESSURE TO AVOID CERTAIN CLAIMS AND CLIENTS
It should go without saying that a lawyer’s job is to represent anyone without fear or favour and that is what the Bar’s cab rank rule is all about and traditionally litigation solicitors have adopted...
View ArticleSTOP ATTACKING THE JUDGES!
Judges are being named and “shamed” not for bias, or rudeness, or being wrong in law, but for occasional delays in delivering Judgements. I put “shamed” in quotation marks as the regulators across...
View Article2025 Zoominars – New Dates and Subjects Confirmed
I will be doing a minimum of 15 Zoominars this year and have confirmed a further three more dates and subjects for May bringing the current total to eight and the schedule is listed below: Tuesday 4...
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CAPE TOWN OPERA IN LONDON: FRIDAY 11 APRIL: 6:00 PM: FREE!
In other news… In another life, I am a Trustee of the UK Friends of Cape Town Opera, a registered charity in the UK run by supporters who promote Cape Town Opera’s work in South Africa and abroad in...
View Article2024 UK JUDICIAL ATTITUDE SURVEY
This is the fifth report in a series that started in 2014 and covers all salaried and fee-paid judicial office-holders in the three separate jurisdictions of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern...
View ArticleINFORMATION TO BE GIVEN TO CLIENTS RE CONDITIONAL FEE AGREEMENTS AND RELATED...
In David Richardson & Ors v Slater & Gordon UK Limited [2025] EWHC 1220 (SCCO) the Senior Courts Costs Office gave important guidance on how much explanation must be given to a client before...
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND CONTEMPT OF COURT: IMPORTANT GUIDANCE
In Ayinde, R (On the Application Of) v Qatar National Bank QPSC & Anor [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin), 6 June 2025 the Divisional Court of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court, gave its judgment...
View ArticleSPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS TRIBUNAL MAY BE SCRAPPED
The Government is considering scrapping SEND, the Special Educational Needs Tribunal and removing the right of parents to have the Court and Tribunal system determine the placing of their children. In...
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