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Reversing the decision in PACCAR & proposals for wider change have been widely welcomed but how likely are many of them to be implemented? David Greene reports

The Civil Justice Council (CJC) has called for light-touch regulation and immediate legislation to reverse PACCAR, in its final report on litigation funding

Tech giant Apple has lost its latest bid to block a multi-million-pound class action by challenging the funding method.

The Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) has approved the £200m settlement between Mastercard and Walter Merricks, in a claim initially valued at £14bn.

How will you spend your £4 Mastercard pay-out? Professor Dominic Regan, NLJ columnist, AKA 'The Insider', writes that the result of the collective action once put at £10bn and later settled for £200m renders it a ‘pointless exercise’.

How will you spend your £4 Mastercard payout? Dominic Regan tots up collective action anti-climaxes & laments expectation versus reality

The deadline for submissions to the Civil Justice Council’s (CJC) consultation on litigation funding, including third party funding, has been extended by one month

Should third-party funding be regulated? If so, how and by whom? This is just one of many thorny questions likely to occupy the minds of litigation lawyers in the year ahead, David Greene, NLJ consultant editor and senior partner at Edwin Coe, writes in this week’s issue.

David Greene anticipates attempts to make the litigation process more efficient and less costly…and make or break for litigation funding

Former financial services ombudsman Walter Merricks’ class action against Mastercard has entered unprecedented territory after the litigation funder opposed a potential settlement.

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Switalskis—Sally Ann Masih, Suzy Overton & Jane Beaumont

Trio of recruits strengthens Switalskis residential property team

Ward Hadaway—Steven Hayward

Birmingham law firm appoints construction partner

Flint Bishop—six appointments

Flint Bishop accelerates Northern growth through strategic senior appointments

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NLJ this week: A wider test for unsafe homes

A High Court decision has clarified that a home may be unfit for human habitation not only where conditions endanger health or safety, but also where they seriously undermine comfort and convenience

NLJ this week: Employment deadlines lengthen

A longer time limit for employment tribunal claims, new charity law thresholds, property tribunal recruitment and appellate guidance on small-claims costs feature in the latest Civil Way round-up

NLJ this week: Estoppel crosses borders

A recent High Court ruling could make issue estoppel considerably more complex in cross-border litigation, requiring parties to consider the foreign law governing the underlying claim

NLJ this week: Safeguards under strain

The Supreme Court has overturned Cheshire West’s bright-line test for deprivation of liberty, replacing it with a broader, more contextual assessment that gives greater weight to an individual’s wishes, feelings and apparent consent

NLJ this week: Fraud reform’s delivery test

Jonathan Fisher KC’s wide-ranging fraud report contains worthwhile proposals, but turning them into workable reform will require money, capacity and political will

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Litigation funding

MOVERS & SHAKERS

Switalskis—Sally Ann Masih, Suzy Overton & Jane Beaumont

Ward Hadaway—Steven Hayward

Flint Bishop—six appointments