NHSLA set to launch formal mediation panel for injury and costs claims
The NHS Litigation Authority has launched a procurement exercise for its first mediation panel, which will look to resolve claims for personal injury and clinical negligence and those arising from claims for legal costs.
Holiday claimants should have used ABTA mediation scheme, says judge as she slashes costs
It was neither reasonable nor proportionate for a group of claimants to spend £456,000 in base costs alone on litigating holiday claims that could have been dealt with far more cheaply by the mediation scheme run by the Association of British Travel Agents, a costs judge has decided.
CEDR in international arbitration push after transatlantic link-up
The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution is to push international arbitration after signing a collaboration agreement with the New York-based International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.
Defendant penalised after “unreasonably” refusing to mediate costs dispute
Newspaper group Mirror Group Newspapers has been hit with indemnity costs after the Senior Costs Judge ruled that it had unreasonably failed to engage in efforts to use alternative dispute resolution instead of going to detailed assessment.
Lord Chief Justice: Rulings of judges-turned-arbitrators need to be in public domain
A way must be found to put into the public domain the decisions of leading ex-judges who are now sitting as arbitrators, the Lord Chief Justice said yesterday. Lord Thomas’s speech coincided with the announcement that the now retired Master of the Rolls, Lord Dyson, was returning to 39 Essex Chambers, where he would act as an arbitrator.
Dyson heads back to old chambers as Etherton becomes new MR
Lord Dyson, who formally retired as Master of the Rolls on Sunday, has rejoined 39 Essex Chambers, which he once headed. He will work principally as an arbitrator in all areas of law but with a particular focus on commercial, public international law and sports law.
CEDR to run press arbitration scheme
The Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution is to run the year-long arbitration pilot scheme for the Independent Press Standards Organisation, the voluntary regulator set up by a host of media organisations in the wake of the Leveson report to replace the Press Complaints Commission.
NHSLA looks to mediation as claimant legal costs continue to spiral
Legal costs now account for 55% of the value of clinical negligence claims worth less than £100,000, by far the highest on record, the annual report of the NHS Litigation Authority has revealed. In response, it is now working to establish a permanent mediation service after a successful pilot.
