Procedure

The High Court has ruled that it has no power to consider a “retrospective” application for permission to appeal against its judgment in an arbitration case which was itself an appeal.

The High Court has rejected an application to introduce a witness statement from an in-house lawyer after the trial had started and cross-examination of the claimants’ witnesses was almost over.

The Supreme Court’s decision not to remove a QC from an arbitration will reinforce the international perception that members of the English Bar are being protected, it has been claimed.

The Supreme Court has rejected a bid to remove a QC appointed to arbitrate a dispute arising from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill because he failed to disclose later appointments in other cases.

Litigators have to wake up to the use of analytics and other technology in helping them provide better outcomes for clients, according to the partner who heads Herbert Smith Freehill’s decision analysis team.

The fast-growing collective action market has become still larger with the launch of specialist Australian law firm Phi Finney McDonald in London.

The County Court Money Claims Centre issued a default judgment “without any judicial input” ordering a local authority to pay £10.5m, it has emerged. The High Court has now overturned it.

A judge was wrong to rule that solicitors had reached a binding compromise on a piece of litigation, when their correspondence had expressly been ‘subject to contract’, the Court of Appeal has decided.

The Royal Mail service ‘Signed For 1st Class’ is first-class post or equivalent for the purposes of the deemed service provisions of the CPR, the Court of Appeal has ruled, overturning two earlier rulings.

Only a small minority of courts in England, Wales and Scotland are accessible to wheelchair users – falling to 2% when other disabilities are included – research by a London personal injury firm has found.