Jack Ridgway
Senior costs lawyer
Jack Ridgway is a senior costs lawyer at Bolt Burdon Kemp and is president of the Association of Costs Lawyers (www.associationofcostslawyers.co.uk).
Senior costs lawyer
Jack Ridgway is a senior costs lawyer at Bolt Burdon Kemp and is president of the Association of Costs Lawyers (www.associationofcostslawyers.co.uk).
Would you ask a bricklayer to install a boiler, asks Jack Ridgway? If not, you should probably get a regulated costs lawyer to manage your costs
Jack Ridgway shares his reflections on the significance of Hugh Grant’s (reluctant) acceptance of a Pt 36 offer
Exceptions to the default rule on costs in discontinued cases are rare but do exist, explains Jack Ridgway
Jack Ridgway offers advice on every solicitor’s bugbear, the estimate of costs
While using estimates to prepare budgets may seem logical, in reality it is attempting to fit a square peg in a round hole: Jack Ridgway explains why
Jack Ridgway provides a lesson in conduct
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MOVERS & SHAKERS
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NEWS
What safeguards apply when trust corporations are appointed as deputy by the Court of Protection?
Disputing parties are expected to take part in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), where this is suitable for their case. At what point, however, does refusing to participate cross the threshold of ‘unreasonable’ and attract adverse costs consequences?
When it comes to free legal advice, demand massively outweighs supply. 'Millions of people are excluded from access to justice as they don’t have anywhere to turn for free advice—or don’t know that they can ask for help,' Bhavini Bhatt, development director at the Access to Justice Foundation, writes in this week's NLJ
When an ex-couple is deciding who gets what in the divorce or civil partnership dissolution, when is it appropriate for a third party to intervene? David Burrows, NLJ columnist and solicitor advocate, considers this thorny issue in this week’s NLJ
NLJ's latest Charities Appeals Supplement has been published in this week’s issue
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