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Fixed costs are unfair and unjust to claimants, says Patrick Allen

Seeing off malicious claims; Triumph for QBD Masters; & Court of Appeal: keep out

Dominic Regan looks to the future of civil litigation

Dominic Regan reviews the litigation year so far

Is the doctrine of precedent the “unwavering” foundation of common law ask Stuart Pickford & Vivien Yip

Iain Stark discusses qualified one-way costs shifting

Claire Pennells & Masood Ahmed examine the application of CPR 44.2 in cases of group litigation

Adrian Jack reports on the current consultation into civil appeal reform

The sanctions regime established in Mitchell has been misapplied once again. Lexa Hilliard QC & Jonathan Lopian report on McTear v Engelhard

David Wright considers the question of when a trial starts, for the purposes of an additional costs payment

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat

Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Clyde & Co—Nick Roberts

Aviation disputes practice strengthened by London partner hire

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Ellisons—Marion Knocker

Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership

NEWS
he abolition of assured shorthold tenancies and section 21 evictions marks the beginning of a ‘brave new world’ for England’s rental sector, writes Daniel Bacon of Seddons GSC
Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way column rounds up a flurry of procedural and regulatory changes reshaping housing, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and personal injury litigation
Patients are being systematically failed by an NHS complaints regime that is opaque, poorly enforced and often stacked against them, argues Charles Davey of The Barrister Group
A wealthy Russian divorce battle has produced a sharp warning about trying to challenge foreign nuptial agreements in the wrong English court. Writing in NLJ this week, Vanessa Friend and Robert Jackson of Hodge Jones & Allen examine Timokhin v Timokhina, where the High Court enforced Russian judgments arising from a prenuptial agreement despite arguments based on the landmark Radmacher decision
An obscure Victorian tort may be heading for an unexpected revival after a significant Privy Council ruling that could reshape liability for dangerous escapes, according to Richard Buckley, barrister and emeritus professor of law at the University of Reading
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