Some 70% of claimants in the past year contacted the other side to try to resolve their complaint out of court, according to the Ministry of Justice’s 2014-15 Civil Court User Survey. Nearly all unspecified money claimants used legal representation, mainly funded on a “no win no fee” basis, compared with less than half of specified money claimants. Half of those specified money claimants who did use a lawyer, did not pay legal fees, perhaps because they used a trade union or law centre. Fewer than one in four claimants used a formal mediation process.
05 November 2015
Civil courts survey
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DWF—David Abbott & Claire Keat
Senior appointments in insurance services and commercial services announced
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Residential property lawyer promoted to partnership
NEWS
Prosecutors will speed up preparations for charging hate crimes, under Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) guidance issued in response to the surge in antisemitic incidents
Improvements to courts, tribunals and the wider justice system in the north are being held back by a lack of national and local collaboration, according to thinktank JUSTICE North
A family judge has criticised the prison authorities for mistakenly freeing a father who abducted his own son
The Law Society has renewed its calls for compensation for legal aid firms affected by the cyber-attack on the Legal Aid Agency (LAA)
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has secured a £10m penalty plus £4.8m in costs from manufacturer Ultra Electronics Holdings, under the terms of a deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) for failure to prevent bribery
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