Professional Negligence Lawyers Association and the Professional Negligence Bar Association Adjudication Scheme By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 30 seconds) This case concerned a professional negligence claim against a law firm regarding the drafting of a will. The testatrix’s instructions in respect of her half share in a property was […]

How can you increase the prospects for proprietary estoppel claims in the context of contested wills? By David Chase, Deputy Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 55 seconds) A question admittedly that not many may ask but, for those involved in these increasingly common disputes, one well worth paying attention to. We’ve taken a […]

By Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager (Estimated reading time: 2 minutes, 47 seconds) Well, Brexit “got done!”. What will there be to talk about for the next twelve months? Well, here at Temple, the Commercial Team may well be listening a bit more and talking a bit less. In 2020 we want to listen to […]

ATE Insurance, The SRA Standards and Regulations 2019 and the importance of judgment Matthew Pascall, Senior Underwriting Manager at Temple Legal Protection and Paul Bennett (Solicitor and Partner at Bennett Briegal LLP) explore the issues in the context of After The Event Insurance (ATE) in litigation. (Estimated reading time: 9 minutes, 39 seconds) On the […]

Charity begins at home By David Pipkin – Director, Underwriting Division (Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 21 seconds) It was Charles Dickens who said ‘Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door’. Whilst lawyers rarely get good press, there is little doubt about the generosity of the legal profession when it comes to charitable […]

‘The calm before the storm?’ – What to look out for in personal injury and clinical negligence in 2020. By Philip Pipkin, Underwriting Support Manager (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes, 31 seconds) 2019 was dominated by the ‘B’ word and, from political and regulatory perspective, everything else had to wait. Was it the ‘calm before […]