Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School and the Frenkel Topping Group examines Black Horse, where 5,000 motor finance claimants could use a single claim form. The test is convenience, rather than the most convenient procedure, with one issue fee covering thousands of claims.
Regan also questions whether indemnity costs necessarily render budgets redundant, highlighting contradictory observations underpinning that proposition. Medical agency and translation fee disputes are heading to the Court of Appeal next March, while a proposed higher guideline hourly rate faces resistance.
Elsewhere, ten simultaneous High Court appointments signal a substantial new recruitment drive, although specialist experience does not always dictate judicial assignments.
Meanwhile, promised legislation reversing PACCAR remains elusive: ‘Still we wait’. Regan also welcomes Lord Briggs’s selection as Supreme Court president and considers the competition for two new justices.
