Time to ditch 100% success fee model, costs expert says

Law firms should abandon business models for low-value personal injury claims based on blanket 100% success fees, a leading costs specialist has argued. She said law firms should re-engineer their procedures to avoid becoming “easy targets” for legal action by firms specialising in claims against solicitors.

Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal over ‘dishonest’ costs claims

The Supreme Court has refused permission for a third appeal by a Leeds law firm against a ruling that it submitted ‘dishonest’ costs claims. It decided the application did not raise an arguable point of law of general public importance given there had already been an appeal.

QOCS applied to whole case after defendant’s unsuccessful PI counterclaim

An unsuccessful defendant in a road traffic claim for financial losses who made an unsuccessful counterclaim for personal injury was entitled to the protection of qualified one-way costs shifting for the whole case, a circuit judge has ruled.

Video hearings pilot: Technical flaws but some positive signs

Solicitor struck off over conflict between litigation and funder clients

Confusion as solicitors make medical record requests for clients under GDPR