Click on the news headline or date to view the full text.     News Archive 24/06/2010 - Offer of a 'Free' Car From a Defendant Insurer Can Be Refused 16/04/2010 - Court of Appeal Refuses to Reduce Damages for Passenger Without Seatbelt 05/03/2010 - New RTA Claims Process Delayed but Draft Rules Released 22/02/2010 - Rule Change For Solicitor Bills 18/01/2010 - Summary of Lord Justice Jackson's Final Report on Costs 15/12/2009 - Delay in the Publication of the Proposed CPR Rule Changes 16/11/2009 - Conflicting Authorities on Costs For Minor Claims Below £1,000 25/09/2009 - MoJ Releases Statement on Costs for New RTA Claims Process 08/09/2009 - No Requirement to Disclose Whether ATE Commission is Paid 11/08/2009 - Public Purse May Compensate Pleural Plaque Sufferers 17/07/2009 - All Sides Disappointed by Reform of Law on Damages 26/06/2009 - Road Deaths Lowest Since Records Began 05/06/2009 - Ministry of Justice and Insurance Fraud Bureau To Share Data 14/05/2009 - Lord Justice Jackson Publishes His Preliminary Report on Costs 29/04/2009 - Ministry of Justice Leak Details Delay in RTA Claims Reform 07/04/2009 - Second Retrospective CFA Can Correct Defective Agreement 06/03/2009 - Government Urged to Rule on Pleural Plaques 03/02/2009 - APIL Predicts Rise in PI Claims 09/01/2009 - SRA Votes Not to Change Referral Rule 02/12/2008 - New Insolvency Policy Set For Launch 31/10/2008 - Record Financial Mis-Selling Fine for Alliance and Leicester 25/09/2008 - Road Deaths Lowest Since Records Began 15/09/2008 - Clinical Negligence Legal Costs Spiralling 15/08/2008 - Senior Costs Judge Rules That ATE Purchased Post Admission Is Recoverable 21/07/2008 - Ministry of Justice Publishes Long Awaited Proposal For The PI Industry 15/07/2008 - Conveyancing Departments Turn to Credit Claims to Ride Economic Downturn 11/06/2008 - Beating a Part 36 Offer Can Still Count as a Loss 23/05/2008 - Court of Appeal Upholds Fixed Costs Success Fee 08/05/2008 - Litigation Funders Regulation Request 17/04/2008 - Insurers in Secret Talks With Government to Reach Pleural Plaques Deal 03/04/2008 - Ministry of Justice Announcement Delayed Again 18/03/2008 - A Claimant Can Use Union Assistance Rather Than BTE Policy 04/03/2008 - Solicitors Can Turn a Profit on Costs Draftsman Fees 08/02/2008 - Government Minister Announces that PI Reform Will Take Place 29/01/2008 - Whitehall Source Indicates that PI Reform Likely to be Abandoned 14/01/2008 - CFA 'Lite' Can Save An Otherwise Unenforceable CFA 30/11/2007 - Law Society Publishes New Simplified Guide to CFAs 13/11/2007 - Less the 25% of The Public Are Aware of ATE or BTE Insurance 07/11/2007 - MPs Call for Legislation to Compensate Pleural Plaques' Victims 23/10/2007 - House of Lords Ruling Halts Pleural Plaques Claims 10/10/2007 - IT Investment Follows Successful Office Relocation 14/09/2007 - We are Moving Offices to Cater for Expansion 07/09/2007 - Foreign RTA Claims Made Easier 29/08/2007 - Solicitors' Notepaper Change to Come Into Force 22/08/2007 - Rehabilitation Code Launched 17/08/2007 - Helphire Buys Law Firm CS2 Lawyers for £10.7m 09/08/2007 - Deaths in Workplace 'Worst for 50 Years' 01/08/2007 - Consultation Period on Damages Ends 25/07/2007 - Organisations Warn Government About ATE Market 18/07/2007 - Organised Crime Gangs Target Insurance Fraud 11/07/2007 - Insurers Object to DCA Proposed Timetable 04/07/2007 - Pleural Plaques Case Reaches House of Lords 21/06/2007 - ABI and Serious Organised Crime Agency to Target Staged Accidents 15/06/2007 - Court of Appeal Upholds 25% Reduction for Failing to Wear Seat Belt 13/06/2007 - Claims Direct TV Adverts To Hit Our Screens Again 08/06/2007 - Many Firms Unaware of New Conduct Rules 06/06/2007 - Up to 10% of Firms Could Be Breaching Referral Regulations 30/05/2007 - TAG Litigation Settlement 'Close' 25/05/2007 - New Ogden Tables Could Increase Damages By Up To 50 Percent 23/05/2007 - Settlement At Door Of Court Is 'At Trial' When Success Fee Assessed 16/05/2007 - Woollard Appeal Dropped Following AMRO Deal With Insurers 11/05/2007 - DAS Announces It Will Be Setting Up Its Own Law Firm 09/05/2007 - The Legal Complaints Service to Survey Miners 04/05/2007 - Fixed Success Fees Recoverable Even Where BTE Exists 02/05/2007 - Pre-Action Admissions of Liability now Binding on Defendant Insurers 27/04/2007 - Law Society Warns Solicitors not to deal with Unregistered Referrers 25/04/2007 - The DCA Issues PI Overhaul Proposal Document 20/04/2007 - High Court Rules that Miners' Fast-Track Scheme Solicitors Must Repay £100m 17/04/2007 - Fortis to Repeat Whiplash Physiotherapy Study After No Benefits Found 13/04/2007 - HM Revenue & Customs Clarify Rehabilitation VAT Position 10/04/2007 - Former TAG boss, Mark Langford killed in Accident 03/04/2007 - Only 40 Brokers Register with Claims Regulator 30/03/2007 - Medical Evidence to be Subject to VAT 27/03/2007 - Government's Consultation Paper on Personal Injury Delayed 23/03/2007 - Payments into Court Abolished from 6th April 2007 20/03/2007 - Court of Appeal Decides Not to Issue Cost Capping Guidance 16/03/2007 - No Duty to Disclose CFA until Detailed Assessment Commenced 13/03/2007 - The FSA Faces Pressure to Stop Third Party Capture 09/03/2007 - The Civil Justice Council Reviews RTA Fixed Fee Scheme 06/03/2007 - The Civil Justice Council seeks Views on Consolidating Protocols 02/03/2007 - Care Payments by Local Authorities to be Deducted from Damages Awards 27/02/2007 - MIB Petition Government Following Uninsured Drivers' Ruling 23/02/2007 - New Solicitors' Code of Conduct Rules to Come into Force 20/02/2007 - Treatment Fees Recovery to Apply to all PI Claims 16/02/2007 - Last chance to Register with the Claims Regulator           * Click here to read the Terms and Conditions which govern your use of this site