Dec 17, 2019
Two recent tax cases offer a reminder of that legal advisers should not use the issue of legal proceedings including judicial review as a first line of attack, but should exhaust all alternative dispute resolution avenues, including mediation, first. The costs bill...
Dec 14, 2019
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Dec 11, 2019
The Bates v Post Office group litigation, which has dragged on for over three years, has been settled, the parties announced today with the Post Office admitting ‘we got things wrong in our dealings with a number of postmasters’. In a joint statement, the parties said...
Dec 10, 2019
I am a member of the Civil Justice Council’s Judicial Liaison Committee tasked with looking into and hopefully implementing the CJC’s Report on ADR published a year ago. The Committee is intended to provide the judiciary, the ADR community and the professions with a...
Dec 10, 2019
“Go to the Balcony” As William Ury reminds us in Getting Past No, during the most heated arguments it is often best for you to imagine yourself on stage and to mentally ‘go to the balcony’ or remove yourself from the situation at hand in order to take a larger view...