Jul 14, 2023
At ProMediate our mediators deal with a wide range of disputes including contractual disputes, wills and probate, inheritance, property disputes and workplace. Independent mediation can be a cost effective way of sorting issues out. One of the issues we frequently...
Jul 10, 2023
Mediation is well suited to inheritance act and contentious probate claims. Costs can be high in these sorts of cases. Another claim regarding an estate has resulted in what have been described as “ruinous” legal costs. We always recommend mediation in such cases,...
Jul 7, 2023
Jul 5, 2023
We reported a case recently where the judge refused to apply part 36 consequences where a Claimant had made a part 36 offer close to the whole of the claim amount. In two other recent decisions the Court has affirmed this approach. In Yieldpoint...
Jul 4, 2023
Another claim regarding an estate has resulted in what have been described as “ruinous” legal costs. We always recommend mediation in such cases, even if they reach the Court of Appeal, as this case did. Morton & Anor v Morton [2023] EWCA Civ 700 (20 June...
Jul 4, 2023
In a recent case Master Macleod ordered ADR for the parties to resolve issues over a costs budget and it was successful. In the case of Hadley v Przybylo (Costs, Costs budgeting, Costs lawyers, personal injury, case manager, recoverability) [2023] EWHC 1392 (KB) (22...