Boundaries – Financial Ruin v Compromise?
£30,000, £40,000, £75,000, £100,000 – significant amounts of money? Yes and these are all examples of the legal costs people across the country have recently spent on fighting boundary disputes...
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“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...
Compulsory Mediation – the European perspective :
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...
Without prejudice – what does it mean?
When issues arise between parties that fall to be settled in or around courts and lawyers, correspondence often bears a "Without Prejudice" heading, but what does that mean?
The short answer, given...
Mediation – The Lord Justice Jackson review
Lord Justice Jackson's long awaited review of litigation costs, published today, was widely predicted to toughen up court use of mediation. CEDR, one of the foremost providers of mediation services in...
