Mediating under the NHS Resolution Scheme
Paul Balen, a consultant at Freeths LLP, is also a Director of Trust Mediation, one of the two providers to the NHS Resolution Mediation Scheme. Below Paul shares his views on mediation for clinical negligence cases, based on actual cases that have been through the process. The impetus to mediate as parties become more familiar […]
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APIL Advanced brain/spinal injury conference
By Matthew Best, Underwriting Manager Our Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Team have been involved in a number of leading claims of this type working with leading serious injury litigators. I attended this event and found the conference to be very useful, both in terms of content and relationship building and let’s not forget the […]
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law firms’ deliverance
By Andrew Ritchie, QC and Tony Guise In a rapidly changing legal service sector, Temple Legal Protection takes a keen interest in technological and other innovations. In the first of a series of articles from product and services providers, DisputesEfiling.com (DEF) present a timely new service that we feel will be of interest to readers […]
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ADR and litigation insurance for commercial disputes – seven practical insights
By David Chase, Deputy Underwriting Manager. With the upsurge in interest in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) in recent years – has the time finally come for commercial litigators to pay closer attention to what it has to offer? David Chase shares his observations in seven practical tips; these are based on practical experience on how […]
Read More Professional Negligence and Liability Update – report from the latest PNLA seminar
Temple were pleased once again to be a sponsor of this seminar. The aim/theme was to try and ‘untangle’ recent changes affecting professional negligence litigation. The speakers were of the highest quality and experience, and the event was chaired by Nicola Rushton QC who made sure proceedings ran like clockwork. She provided a keynote address […]
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ADR and FRC: It’s not if, but when – and are you ready to respond?
By Terry Renouf, Renouf Mediation In his latest update, Terry Renouf from Renouf mediation takes a closer look at developments in ADR and makes some timely predictions based on recent regulatory-related activity. It provides food for thought in its potential impact on personal injury and clinical negligence claims. Wake up and sell the coffee! Amid […]
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Is disbursement funding interest recoverable
By Matthew Best, Underwriting Manager In this article Matthew takes a look at the latest position in relation to this hot topic. The current defendant stance is that interest incurred on loans taken out to pay for disbursements should not be recoverable inter-partes. What case law is currently out there? The Court of Appeal in […]
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The Supreme Court’s Judgment in Lachaux
By David Chase, Deputy Underwriting Manager The Supreme Court has handed down its long awaited judgment in the matter of Bruno Lachaux v Independent Print Limited and Evening Standard Limited, when it dismissed the newspapers’ appeals. The Court has upheld the decisions of the Court of Appeal and Warby J that each of the articles […]
Read More Insolvency Litigation Conference 2019 – 10th September
Temple Legal Protection is excited to announce that it is sponsoring the Insolvency Litigation Conference 2019, on 10 September at Queen Mary University, West Smithfield Campus, London, EC1A 7BE. Agenda Registration from 8.45am 9.30 Cross border restructuring and insolvencies after Brexit Jeremy Goldring QC, South Square Chambers & Mathew Newman, Partner, Ogier 10.10 Defrauding creditors […]
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