Jul 12, 2024
There is currently a group claim proceeding through the Courts in relation to diesel emissions. The Court recently had to look at the costs budgets. The costs being incurred were detailed in the judgment published publicly. The Courts will generally try to limit the...
Jun 4, 2024
The Role of Mediation in Dispute Resolution Disputes occur in everyone’s lives which is proven by the fact that around 17,000 mediations take place in England and Wales each year as reported by the 2023 Tenth Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) Mediation...
Jun 3, 2024
In the recent case of Conway v Conway & Anor (Rev1) [2024] EW Misc 19 (CC) (31 May 2024)URL: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/Misc/2024/19.html the Claimant had a proprietary estoppel claim. He alleged that when he sold a property he had an option to buy it...
May 14, 2024
The MOJ is consulting on changing the civil procedure rules to make it a requirement of the rules to encourage ADR and to give judges the express power to stay cases for ADR and order parties to use alternative dispute resolution. The idea is to reflect the decision...
May 2, 2024
it has long been the case that ignoring a mediation proposal is unreasonable, not just actually refusing to mediate. The two approaches are the same. The Court has, since the cases of Halsey v Milton Keynes [2004] EWCA Civ 586 and PGF v OMFS [2013] EWCA Civ 1288 been...
