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Kerry Underwood

Chairman

Kerry Underwood, chairman, Underwood Solicitors (www.underwoods-solicitors.co.uk; @kerry_underwood) 

Chairman

Kerry Underwood, chairman, Underwood Solicitors (www.underwoods-solicitors.co.uk; @kerry_underwood) 

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
Time to shape up? Premium Content

Kerry Underwood recommends some summer reading & top tips for the new Lord Chancellor

11 August 2017
Anywhere county court 2018: send in the clowns Premium Content

A play by Kerry Underwood

10 February 2017
Cost benefit analysis Premium Content

Costs orders: who pays & when, asks Kerry Underwood

    20 October 2016
    One direction Premium Content

    Kerry Underwood examines qualified one-way costs shifting

    18 October 2016
    Running costs Premium Content

    Kerry Underwood assesses guideline hourly rates

    14 July 2016
    Proportionality: an utter mystery? Premium Content

    Kerry Underwood discusses proportionality in costs

    14 July 2016
    Staking a claim Premium Content

    Kerry Underwood concludes his 60th birthday tour with a master class on small claims, portals & Pt 36

    27 May 2016
    We need to talk about the ABS fiasco Premium Content

    Why is everyone ignoring the obvious when it comes to ABSs? Kerry Underwood can’t hide his disbelief

    15 October 2015
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    MOVERS & SHAKERS

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    Group partner joins Guernsey banking and finance practice

    Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

    Morgan Lewis—Kat Gibson

    London labour and employment team announces partner hire

    Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

    Foot Anstey McKees—Chris Milligan & Michael Kelly

    Double partner appointment marks Belfast expansion

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    NLJ this week: The insider returns
    Writing in NLJ this week, NLJ columnist Dominic Regan surveys a landscape marked by leapfrog appeals, costs skirmishes and notable retirements. With an appeal in Mazur due to be heard next month, Regan notes that uncertainties remain over who will intervene, and hopes for the involvement of the Lady Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls in deciding the all-important outcome
    NLJ this week: Drawing the line on contempt
    After the Southport murders and the misinformation that followed, contempt of court law has come under intense scrutiny. In this week's NLJ, Lawrence McNamara and Lauren Schaefer of the Law Commission unpack proposals aimed at restoring clarity without sacrificing fair trial rights
    NLJ this week: Stop and search by the numbers
    The latest Home Office figures confirm that stop and search remains both controversial and diminished. Writing in NLJ this week, Neil Parpworth of De Montfort University analyses data showing historically low use of s 1 PACE powers, with drugs searches dominating what remains
    NLJ this week: Looking back on the prorogation that never was
    Boris Johnson’s 2019 attempt to shut down Parliament remains a constitutional cautionary tale. The move, framed as a routine exercise of the royal prerogative, was in truth an extraordinary effort to sideline Parliament at the height of the Brexit crisis. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Graham Zellick KC dissects how prorogation was wrongly assumed to be beyond judicial scrutiny, only for the Supreme Court to intervene unanimously
    NLJ this week: How not to plead a schedule of loss
    A construction defect claim in the Court of Appeal offers a sharp lesson in pleading discipline. In his latest 'Civil way' column for NLJ, Stephen Gold explains how a catastrophically drafted schedule of loss derailed otherwise viable claims. Across the areas explored in this week's column, the message is consistent: clarity, economy and proper pleading matter more than ever
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