When a client complains, the ombudsman will want to see evidence firms tried to progress matters.
Senior Costs Judge Rowley says clients understood terms and were not put under pressure to sign.
Dishonest claimant had said her solicitors let her down over costs information.
Public Accounts Committee critical of ‘astronomical’ sums paid to claimant lawyers.
London and Manchester firm denies all allegations against it over its work on a £26m clinical negligence claim.
Listed group says supply of enquiries will recover slowly but sees 'no meaningful recovery' in panel demand.
MedCo issues new guidelines on how examinations must be administered - including a limit of 35 a day.
Judge rejects allegations that appointment of directors to legal business was a sham.
Claire Leslie is co-ordinator of the Devon and Cornwall region of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers.
Express Solicitors says it acts in common with most firms by agreeing deductions with clients at the time of instruction.
Defence lawyers welcome clarification about risk principle in asbestos-related claims.
Lawyer who represents victims says government has placed reform on the ‘too hard pile’.
Patrick Allen qualified in 1977 and set up London firm Hodge Jones & Allen from a Euston squat.
Ruling highlights dangers of expert reports that are 'factually inaccurate, and lacking in enquiry and analysis'.
Claimant representatives pinned failings on 'rogue' fee-earner, as defence lawyers went ‘above and beyond’ to sustain the action.