An interesting article discusses a recent CA judgment in which it was held that a litigation funder’s liability for payment of the successful parties’ legal costs was not capped at the funding amount it had provided to the unsuccessful claimant. The case will be relevant to practitioners in a number of ways: all those concerned …
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An interesting article considers a recent CA case in which early neutral evaluation (ENE) under the CPR was ordered even though not all parties to the dispute consented to it. ENE is a form of ADR in which an independent and impartial evaluator is appointed to give the parties an assessment of the merits of …
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The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill 2019-21 is making its way on to the statute books at the time of publication. It contains a significant number of provisions, not all of which relate to the Covid-19 situation and its impact on businesses. We reported on some of the key provisions in our May 2020 edition …
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