10/5/2016 5:54:06 PM Litigation funding costs - "a skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all" By Joel Leigh When Sylvia Plath penned the above in her journals, she plainly didn't have the recoverability of solicitors fees at the forefront of her...
8/23/2016 5:50:07 PM Fee (Fi-Fo-Fum) By Joel Leigh Traditionally it's been tough to engage lawyers, let alone small business owners or the men and women of the Clapham omnibus, on the...
7/15/2016 6:55:52 PM Mick McCarthy, your boys took one hell of a beating... By Joel Leigh Ipswich Town fans out there will be well aware that their team have yet to taste a home defeat at the hands of Real Madrid, AC Milan,...
7/13/2016 11:23:57 AM Well, that was predictable... By Joel Leigh It's been said that predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go. There's been growing interest on the part of the UK...
7/4/2016 5:55:19 PM Costs War Is Over (if you want it) By Joel Leigh More or less any Solicitor involved in conditional fee work will have been accused, at one time or another, of a technical breach of the...
6/30/2016 1:20:27 PM If even prospective Prime Ministers are quitting preemptively ... By Joel Leigh One might wonder where this leaves the rest of us, including members of the legal profession, post Brexit. Just a week down the road,...
6/23/2016 3:57:31 PM Indiana Jones and the solicitor of doom By Joel Leigh Cinema buffs will recall that in the Last Crusade, the third instalment of the movie franchise, our hero sought the Holy Grail and chose,...
6/17/2016 3:26:25 PM I Want It All: (subject to proportionality) By Joel Leigh It's a hard life for Queen guitarist Brian May, who has seen the costs of his successful claim against the owners of his neighbouring...
6/16/2016 5:32:40 PM Lord Neuberger Warns of Conditional Fee Conflict: in other news water remains wet... By Joel Leigh Lord Neuberger observed last night, when delivering a speech on "ethics and advocacy" at the Royal Courts of Justice, that Conditional...
6/10/2016 4:56:53 PM Online Courts: a lawyer free zone? By Joel Leigh Lord Justice Briggs, the new Deputy Head of Civil Justice, is the latest Judge charged with the unenviable task of implementing...