By Sam Knight, Underwriter (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 20 seconds) Alternative dispute resolution: it’s fast, it’s efficient and seemingly, it’s here to stay. When the Civil Justice Council (CJC) concluded that parties could lawfully be compelled to participate in ADR in June 2021, most lawyers were sceptical. Below we share our views on this. […]

By Matthew Best – Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes 52 seconds) You may well have read a few months ago that two large litigation funders exited the market. This, understandably, may have resulted in unease if you are currently considering utilising litigation funding or disbursement funding. With that in mind, below is […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 50 seconds) Andy Lyalle and Matthew Pascall were lucky enough to attend the first post-COVID in-person PNLA conference at Billesley Manor, near Stratford, earlier this month. Temple were proud sponsors of this unique event that brings together leaders in the field of professional negligence for a […]

By Andy Lyalle, Senior Business Development Manager (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 0 seconds) In a restaurant, the meal you order depends on how hungry you are, the time of day and your budget – with the menu laid out accordingly. Here at Temple, we think getting After the Event (ATE) insurance policy to cover […]

(Estimated reading time: 4 minutes 27 seconds) Shakespeare would probably have enjoyed the verbal jousting on social media and Hamlet’s ponderings about human existence in general could also have worked online. But with Twitter in the news again as Elon Musk considers taking over the company and into private ownership, we ask whether this is […]

Representative privacy actions in the 21st Century (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 26 seconds) On 10th November 2021 the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Court of Appeal in the Lloyd v Google case, clamping down on representative privacy actions in the age of the internet. Previously, the Claimants had been successful in a […]