23 September 2010 | Justine Ash
The next CPR update includes an important change to the way in which costs of under £25,000 will be assessed in the future.
Practice Direction 51E provides for a County Court Provisional Assessment...
Tags on this discussion: County Courts CPR Litigation; Costs Assessments; Assessment of Costs; CPR51;PD51E;County Court Pilot Schemes;
16 September 2010 | Justine Ash
The European Court of Justice has ruled that communications with in-house counsel are not subject to legal professional privilege in cartel investigations carried out by the European Commission, including...
Tags on this discussion: European Union High Court Privilege; In-house lawyers; European Court of Justice; Akzo; Legal Professional Privilege
6 September 2010 | Justine Ash
In the very recent case of Elliott Group Limited and Others v GECC UK (formerly GE Capital Corporation and others (EWHC 409 (TCC) 010) the courts have reconsidered the grounds for allowing parties...
Tags on this discussion: Adjournments Civil Procedure Rules Litigation Overriding Objective Trial
26 August 2010 | Justine Ash
The world is becoming smaller. As a result, there are increasingly more and more occasions where you may find that you need to have a legal document translated into another language in the spirit of...
Tags on this discussion: High Court Litigation Professional Legal Translations Translation Confidential Documents Translation Legal Documents
26 August 2010 | Justine Ash
The EU Mediation Directive 2008/52/EC (the Directive) was adopted on 23 April 2008 and came into force on 13 June 2008. The Directive applies to all EU member states (apart from Denmark, which opted...
Tags on this discussion: ADR Cross-border mediation Directive 2008/52/EC Enforced Mediation European Commission Mediation
13 July 2010 | Justine Ash
Expert Determination is a form of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in which an independent expert in the subject matter of the dispute, is appointed jointly by the parties to decide on an issue within...
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1 July 2010 | Justine Ash
Facebook - Are you being served?
Recent developments in Australia and New Zealand concerning the service of legal documents via the social networking website Facebook show the extent to which the internet...
Tags on this discussion: CPR6 Litigation Reasonable Steps Service by email service of documents use of Facebook
8 June 2010 | Justine Ash
An important new decision has clarified the meaning of “usual residence” for the purpose of service of a claim form.
Part 6 of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) deals with the service of documents....
Tags on this discussion: CPR defendant's last known address Lit residence for purposes of service service of documents
19 April 2010 | Justine Ash
“HOT TUBBING”
The Jackson Report on litigation costs included some novelties, for example the concept of “hot tubbing”.
Hot tubbing or “concurrent evidence”, is a method of giving...
Tags on this discussion: Dispute Resolution Experts High Court Hot tubbing Jackson report Litigation and Dispute Resolution Mediation
30 March 2010 | Justine Ash
A recent ruling in the European Court of Justice has stated that an Italian court’s imposition of compulsory mediation on parties to litigation did not amount to a breach of Article 6(1) of the Convention...
Tags on this discussion: compusory mediation Dispute Resolution Enforced Mediation European Convention on Human Rights European Court Justice European Mediation Halsey High Court Litigation Mediation Mediation in Europe
