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Book review-Surviving Jackson: Developing a profitable personal injury practice for the future

27 September 2013
Issue: 7577 / Categories: Features
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"Every PI firm has some hard thinking to do, whether to stay but specialise and reorganise or get out"

Editors: Jeff Zindani & Dominic Regan
Publisher: Sun Legal Publishing
ISBN: 9780957685000
Price: £99.99

 

This is a collection of 12 essays dealing with the legal landscape post-Jackson, edited by industry experts Jeff Zindani and Dominic Regan. Constributors include Zindani, Regan, Nick Jervis, Mark Friston, HHJ Simon Brown andMark Feeny.

Costs

Professor Regan deals with the new procedural framework and proportionality. He explains the new changes to personal injury (PI) costs, though most readers should be familiar with this by now. He then covers the new test on proportionality, much of which is taken up with history followed by the new rule. There is discussion on what proportionality will mean in practice—the answer largely being we don’t know—only satellite litigation on a case by case basis will clarify for example what sort of complexity can justify higher costs.

Two chapters deal with budgets—an outline of the new rules

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

Carey Olsen—Kim Paiva

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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