No Order For Costs

In the recent case of Sirketi v Kupeli & Ors [2018] EWCA Civ 1264 the Court of Appeal overturned an order for costs in favour of the Claimants with an order for no costs. The claims, which were never formally incorporated into a Group Litigation Order but were joined and managed together with one firm…

GDPR and Subject Access Requests

Record Providers will now have to change how they respond to Subject Access Requests under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on 25th May. How does GPDR change Subject Access Requests? Several aspects of how Subject Access Requests are dealt with have changed as follows: Record Providers will no longer…

ATE slashed – by nearly £50,000!

Nicolaou v Cass (2017) Claim Number B04LV651 in the Liverpool County Court This was a Clinical Negligence claim which settled for £250,000.00, costs were then to be dealt with. As part of the costs, the Claimant sought to recover an ATE Premium of £53,145.00 plus IPT, ARAG were the insurers in this instance. The matter…