Covering civil litigation, costs law, court procedure, limitation issues and procedural developments across the courts and tribunals.
A practical guide to serving out of the jurisdiction: the PD 6B gateways, merits and forum requirements, a step-by-step checklist and the tactical lessons of Sucden v TMT Metals.
A checklist for the solvent party when a litigant goes bankrupt: section 306 vesting, sufficient interest after CYK v Davis, dealing with the trustee, partnership-asset arguments and timing.
An explainer on warehousing claims: Grovit v Doctor, the two-stage Asturion approach, what CYK v Davis adds on counterclaims, and the practical steps that keep a stalled claim…
The iniquity exception prevents privilege attaching to communications furthering fraud or underhand conduct. Bourlakova and Pliego now mark where legitimate investigation ends and where instructing agents costs a…
CPR 27.14(2)(g) allows a costs order on the small claims track for unreasonable behaviour. After Orton v Barclays the exception must be read narrowly, because the track is…
CPR 31.16 sets four threshold conditions for pre-action disclosure, and satisfying every one of them opens the discretion rather than producing an order. What actually decides the discretion.
The HMCTS court data licence caps four high-risk uses, including anticipating legal decisions for a client, at a one-year experimental licence whose output cannot be released to customers…
The Business and Property Division of the High Court opens on 1 October 2026, replacing the Chancery Division and absorbing the Commercial Court, Admiralty Court, Circuit Commercial Courts…
Crispin Odey has dropped his £79 million libel claim against the Financial Times over its 2023 reporting of sexual misconduct allegations.