This webinar provides a practical and detailed examination of claims for care and assistance in personal injury and clinical negligence litigation. It explores the legal principles underpinning suc…

This webinar provides a practical and up-to-date analysis of the law and practice relating to provisional damages and periodical payments in personal injury litigation. It begins with a review of r…

Every personal injury claim includes a claim for damages for pain, suffering and loss of amenity. Yet it is often the least analysed part of the claim. Awards are frequently based on broad assumpti…

DG Calculators is an online suite of professional legal calculators, built by David Green, a barrister at 12 King’s Bench Walk.  There is a 14 day free trial period. (CLB members have a discount &…

For many personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners, the Coroners’ Court is unfamiliar territory. Yet an inquest can be one of the most important stages in a fatal accident claim. …

Today we look at the posts from June 2013, that is the month that Civil Litigation Brief first started as a blog (24th June 2013).  Prior to that it had been a monthly (and when the Civil Procedure…

Regular readers will know that a recurring theme of this blog is the number of ways in which a case can go wrong, and how often the damage is done by something that should have been straightforward…

Expert evidence plays a critical and often decisive role in clinical negligence litigation, and the ability to assess such evidence is a core skill for litigators. This webinar examines the legal f…

Expert evidence plays a critical and often decisive role in clinical negligence litigation, and the ability to assess such evidence is a core skill for litigators. This webinar examines the legal f…

There is no shortage of posts on this blog where judges have been critical of expert witnesses (and sometimes those who instruct them). This webinar examines how courts assess and evaluate expert e…

Fatal accident claims are among the most complex and high-stakes cases a  lawyer can handle. They are not simply personal injury claims in which the injured person has died. Fatal accident litigati…

A federal judge in Alabama has suspended a lawyer from practicing in his court for six months after finding the attorney submitted a brief with false quotations and impeded ​a probe into whether an AI program was used to draft the filing.

Tributes have been paid to Giles Peaker, a leading housing sector lawyer who passed away last weekend.

I was distressed to read the news that the extraordinary talented Giles Peaker passed away last weekend. The news can be found on his blog “Nearly Legal”  which includes tribute from hi…

A post yesterday highlighted both the significance of a claim for loss of earnings for a child claimant, but also the difficulty.  In that case the award for disability in the labour market of £50,…

Updates and Commentary on Civil Procedure, by Gordon Exall, Barrister, Kings Chambers

When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

The recent short series on this site about the Ombudsman and estimates of costs highlighted the issues that can occur when there are disputes over costs and the original figures given by the solici…

This short series has aimed to highlight the ongoing difficulties that litigators, in particular, can have with giving compliant costs information to their clients.  In looking at this topic it is …

We have seen a few interesting cases about limitation in the past 12 months.  Misunderstanding, and missing, limitation periods remains a frequent issue in modern litigation. This webinar deals wit…

A working — indeed, a detailed — knowledge of how Part 36 operates in practice is essential for all litigators. Although it is famously described as a “self-contained code”, it is a code whose appl…

The new Guideline hourly rates were published yesterday. They take effect from 1st January 2026 (for anyone working).   They have been updated using service producer price inflation (SPPI).   …

A judgment debtor is in a vulnerable position.  There are companies out there taking advantage of that vulnerability by pretending to be official enforcement agencies and taking money off the debto…

We have seen examples of witness evidence served late, sometimes very late.  Here we see an example of witness evidence served five minutes before a hearing was due to start, and two months late. F…

The post earlier today about the significant difference between a non-admission and denial has led me to revisit previous posts on the case.  This post from 2020 which reviewed the case law on the …