Bon voyage to Paul Bonner – a well-earned retirement
Friday 14 October 2022 marked time-up for one of our longest serving members of Temple Legal Protection. After 22 (twenty-two) years, Paul pulled the plug on his employment with us and made his decision to retire. With 40 years’ plus experience in the insurance industry, we have certainly lost an extremely experienced colleague. Paul has […]
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Fixed costs – a fix that doesn’t fix what needs fixing – Part 2
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 3 seconds) With the GB pound sinking to an all-time low against the US dollar during the government original budget proposals – what else could our leaders do to make things worse? Well, for the legal sector, guess what… Sadly, but perhaps unsurprisingly the […]
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Fair Rules for Unfair Prejudice Claims – Primekings & Ors v King & Ors [2021] EWCA Civ 1943
(Estimated reading time: 1 minute 23 seconds) In Primekings v King the Court of Appeal recently confirmed the validity of the approach in Graham v Every [2015] 1 BCLC 41, [2014] EWCA Civ 191 to tackling unfair prejudice claims under s994 Companies Act 2006. It must now be shown that there is a ‘causal connection’ […]
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P36 acceptances and the ATE premium; an argument over “costs”
(Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 0 seconds) Many arguments have been advanced since LASPO attacking the recoverability of After the Event (“ATE”) insurance premiums, but the recent decision in Dance v East Kent University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Ors [2022] EWHC B9 (Costs) has found that the ATE premium of £5,266.01 was payable in […]
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John Durbin Joins Temple Legal Protection as Senior Business Development Manager
By Matthew Best, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 15 seconds) Many appointment announcements are full of ‘corporate speak’ so we’ve taken a different approach and gone ‘straight to video’ to introduce John Durbin, Temple’s new Senior Business Development Manager for our clinical negligence and personal injury team. If first impressions count, he […]
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Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People
(Estimated reading time: 1 minute 46 seconds) Working with children and adults with physical and learning disabilities Here at Temple we remain committed to our charitable endeavours and to support selected activities of our law firm customers. In this newsletter we asked The Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for Disabled People (whom we have supported for several […]
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Paying the Price of the Pandemic: Business Interruption Insurance and Covid-19
By Sam Knight, Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 35 seconds) The Covid-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges to businesses across the UK and throughout the world. The hospitality sector was one of the worst effected, with waning footfall and weary customers told to stay at home and protect the NHS. Many businesses sought to rely […]
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Calling All Northern Ireland Clinical Negligence Practitioners, There’s a Product for You
(Estimated reading time: 1 minute 51 seconds) Temple Legal Protection is excited to announce the introduction of our After the Event (ATE) insurance product in Northern Ireland for clinical negligence specialists looking to protect their clients from the risks of litigation. What is it and how does it work? Temple ATE provides insurance cover for […]
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The Commercial Hub – A View From the Sharp End of Commercial Dispute Resolution in Northern Ireland.
(Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 22 seconds) The Commercial Hub (the Hub) has revolutionised the approach to issuing and prosecuting commercial actions in Northern Ireland. Since its arrival in April 2019 the Hub has had time to embed particularly through the disruptive period of COVID-19. Stuart Nevin, Principal Associate at Shoosmiths, gives his views on […]
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