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.