Avi Dolties How are you managing your work life balance? Is this a serious question? Work/Life? It’s more like work/work! Fortunately, for MRN we have had a steady stream of work and have been privileged to assist clients with securing their costs in this uncertain period of time. For me, it is about time management.…
Avi Dolties XDE v North Middlesex University Hospital Trust [2019] EWHC 1482 (QB) The claim arose from a delay in the diagnosis of the Claimant’s meningitis with devastating consequences. The issues of liability and causation were concluded by agreement in July 2016 on the basis of a 98%/2% apportionment. Following the agreement in respect…
Avi Dolties Murray v Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 539] This was a clinical negligence matter where following conclusion of the claim, the claimant was entitled to costs. Following service of the Bill of Costs, the Defendant put forward the submission that in view of the numerous errors in the Bill of…
AR v Barts Health NHS Trust, Claim Number HQ14X01928 The ability to recoup ATE premiums from paying parties in litigation on the whole ended with effect from the 1st April 2013 in relation to policies incepted on or after that date. The Recovery of ATE Premiums in Clinical Negligence Proceedings (no. 2) Regulations 2013 (the…
The post LASPO era has not exactly been the ‘golden years’ for personal injury lawyers. Among the main changes was in relation to success fees. Success fees that were awarded to solicitors upon entering into a CFA would now no longer be recoverable from the paying party and instead would be payable by the Claimant.…
Malone v Birmingham Community NHS Trust [2018] EWCA Civ 1376 Wrongly named Defendants in CFAs is a recurring issue with various non-binding and conflicting decisions on the issue including Brierley v Prescott [2006] EWHC 90062 (Costs), Law v Liverpool City Council [2005] EWHC 90020 (Costs), Scott v Transport for London (2009) (unreported) and Brookes v…
In Nash v Ministry of Defence [2018] EWHC B4 (Costs), the Defendant advanced the argument that where the Court has reduced the hourly rates in relation to the incurred costs, that is a good reason to apply the same reduced rates to the ‘budgeted’, i.e. future costs. The proposed method to achieve the same, presented…
Our Solicitor and Accredited Mediator Avi Dolties considers whether mediation would help the NHS in its current state. Click on the image below to read Avi’s article, which was published in ‘PI Focus’ (March 2018). A special thanks to Rachel Rothwell, editor of PI Focus. Avi Dolties
Our Solicitor and Accredited Mediator Avi Dolties discusses costs mediation and its benefits. Click the image below to read and find out more of Avi’s article published in ‘Litigation Funding,’ the Law Society’s guide to finance and costs, December 2017 edition. A special thanks goes out to Rachel Rothwell, editor of Litigation Funding magazine. Avi Dolties