Costs: QOCS and Part 20 claims

QM Legal Costs | Personal Injury Law Journal | April 2018 #164
Defendants need to be aware of the potential costs consequences of joining another defendant to the action, as Paul Jones explains ‘Unlike the situation in Plevin and Landau, where there was only ever one underlying dispute, in this case the original dispute with the defendant, for which the claimant had entered into the CFA, and …

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Insolvency: Tried and trusted

Hill Dickinson LLP | The Commercial Litigation Journal | March/April 2017 #72
Kathryn Maclennan takes a view on the impact of a recent decision on trusts created by IVAs ‘The insolvency legislation is relatively light when it comes to IVAs and this is for good reason. An IVA is a contract and effect must be given to its terms.’ The Court of Appeal (CoA) decision in Green …

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Consumer Credit: PPI pitfall

Hill Hofstetter Limited | The Commercial Litigation Journal | January/February 2015 #59
Davina Bentley and Helen Mulcahy investigate a recent Supreme Court ruling on unfairness under the Consumer Credit Act ‘The decision [in Plevin] has displaced Harrison as the leading authority and loosened the constraints on what might be regarded as being an unfair transaction in favour of consumers of financial services.’The Supreme Court recently provided welcome …

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