What are the costs of mediation? Who pays the mediation fees? And what happens if mediation fails?
Category Archives: mediation
Pleural Plaques statutory scheme to be introduced
The government has announced it will not overturn the House of Lords ruling that compensation is not payable on diagnosis of pleural plaques. It has however announced that it will introduce a scheme to compensate those people whose claims were lodged but not concluded before the 2007 ruling.
End of Trade Unions funding personal injury claims?
Will the introduction of qualified one-way costs shifting allied to other proposals from Lord Jackson mean the end of union backed claimants in personal injury litigation?
Jackson report debated in parliament
The House of Lords has briefly debated the costs report from Lord Jackson. Follow the link to see what they had to say.
Hullock v East Riding of Yorkshire County Council
Once again the question of who was the winner in personal injury litigation was considered by the Court of Appeal in Hullock v East Riding of Yorkshire County Council [2009]. In December 2004 the claimant tripped on a pavement and suffered injuries. She had a fractured hip requiring insertion of a plate and two weeks…
Beresfords former solicitors lose appeal
Former solicitors lose appeal against being struck off the Roll whilst some MPs call for solicitors to be excluded from proposed scheme for asbestos related pleural plaques compensation.
Can mediation work in personal injury?
Lord Clarke, now in the Supreme Court, takes the opportunity of a speech at a personal injury awards ceremony to once again extol the virtues of mediation in personal injury litigation.
Can mediation be used in clinical negligence compensation claims?
There still appears to be a very low take up of mediation in clinical negligence cases and the matter was raised again in December with a representative of the Legal Services Commission at a mediation conference.
