You may have seen my recent Linkedin post about my recent mediation experience where I turned up with my client and the other side turned up mob handed with leading and junior counsel, law firm partner and associate. The case…

The Court of Appeal has ruled that the courts can compel parties to engage in ADR as long as this does not deprive a party to litigation to the right to trial. Unity welcomes this as a step in the…

Unless you have a real interest or you are an academic, do not read the decision of the Supreme Court. If you do read R (On the Application of PACCAR Inc and Others (Appellants) v CAT and Others (Respondents) (2023)…

I have already commented upon the knots the firm of Candey tied itself in in various cases when the aim of access of justice for a client through alternative means of funding came into conflict with the firm’s own interests.…

I live near Shipston, a small friendly town in Warwickshire on the edge of The Cotswolds.  At the end of 19th Century, a local businessman donated a large sum for the construction of a cottage hospital in the town and…

Candey Limited are a well-known London commercial law firm determined to take maximum advantage of the rules allowing conditional fee agreements/damages-based agreements to give better access to justice to claimants involved in commercial cases in the High Court. Over the…

I have spent most of my career as a solicitor in commercial litigation after a false start as a matrimonial lawyer. Mostly my clients have been individual entrepreneurs and SME companies and I have been lucky enough to follow the…

Litigation funding is now a growing and understood part of the business of dispute resolution. Claimants and their advisers understand the merit of a third party funding claims in return for giving up a large share of any award- ‘50%…

I advised a client who held a senior executive position that she had a very strong case for constructive dismissal , having been the victim of prolonged bullying by a director who was a representative of the shareholders. After a…