Jan 28, 2026
By Peter Causton With thanks to reporting by the Daily Mail The Daily Mail this week reported a bleak and deeply troubling story: a 77-year-old pensioner, Jenny Field, evicted from her £420,000 home after losing a five-year legal battle with her neighbour over a strip...
Jan 21, 2026
Mediation, Interim Relief, and Costs Discipline in Heavy Commercial Chancery Litigation: Lessons from Gable Insurance AG v Dewsall & Ors [2025] EWHC 3399 (Ch) The decision in [2025] EWHC 3399 (Ch) (Vos DJ, 23 December 2025) is formally a costs...
Jan 21, 2026
Mediation, Delay, and the Cost of Missed Opportunities: Lessons from Reid (Deceased) [2026] EWHC 53 (Ch) Probate disputes are uniquely combustible. They combine money, memory, grief, and family history—often long-buried resentments—into a single legal...
Jan 9, 2026
A recent case casts light on the Courts’ approach to penalising parties who do not respond to invitations to mediate. Proposing mediation (and replying properly): the costs lesson from Gable Insurance AG (in liquidation) v Dewsall & Ors [2025] EWHC 3399 (Ch)...
Dec 19, 2025
The Grenfell Tower litigation: early mediation, disclosure, and a pragmatic approach to costs A short procedural ruling in the Grenfell Tower litigation provides a careful illustration of how the courts continue to encourage sensible engagement with mediation, even in...
Dec 19, 2025
When the curtain lifts on a mediation: Boghossian v IOP and the limits of “mediation privilege” Most of the time, what happens in a mediation stays in the mediation. That promise of confidentiality is the oxygen of candid negotiation: parties can float ideas, make...
