There has been a 5% drop in legal costs of clinical negligence claims over the past year, according to the NHSR annual report. This may be the result of increased mediation, although the report does not specify. Damages payments to claimants went up 14% to £1.4bn in...
In this case the margin by which a party beat their own Part 36 offer was not relevant in determining costs consequences. The case also highlights the risk taken in relying on beating part 36 offers and the massive cost of clinical negligence claims-better to mediate...
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Judges could be told to get tougher on making sure parents attend mediation as part of a raft of emergency measures to stop the family justice system collapsing. Sir Andrew McFarlane, president of the family division, said the current volume of cases is ‘unprecedented...
Another crazy case in the press this week and we have to ask, why didn’t they mediate? A couple who were sued by their neighbour over noise from the wooden floor in their Kensington home have been left facing a legal bill of up to £1 million. Sarah and Ahmed El...
