Positive results coming from both ends of the civil claims market.
Private equity-backed Fletchers announces acquisition of Hayden's Solicitors.
Express Solicitors received the funding from Ufenau Capital Partners to ‘accelerate growth’ in its personal injury work.
Personal injury.
Civil Procedure Rule Committee invites feedback for interim implementation stocktake of fixed recoverable costs.
Health outcome statistics for women expose a ‘gender pain gap’.
Post-implementation review will consider increasing the small claims track limit to £5,000.
National Audit Office report points out that lawyers’ fees are 3.7 times higher than damages awarded to claimants in cases worth under £25,000.
Defendants should not be given ‘free tilt’ at raising fundamental dishonesty accusations, judge rules.
Solicitor of 23 years feared that medical records would open client up to 'fundamental dishonesty' attack.
Judge accepts evidence despite 'fundamental and repeated' errors in editing footage of claimant.
Clinical negligence practitioner talked about getting medical reports for case that had long since ended.
The law firm Fletchers Group is seeking to enhance the image of the much-maligned claimant PI sector.
Surgeon carried out amputations but had a secret sexual fetish for body modification.
Court of Appeal judgment offers 'useful guidance for legal teams seeking to protect vulnerable claimants'.