The latest news on legal judgments from ATEMatters

It’s a brand new year and already time for the first edition of ATE Matters.  We start 2022 with some key decisions affecting the world of litigation and our first offering is worthy of note, being centred on the Norwich Pharmacal principle and the impact on requests for disclosure of information.  Kent v Apple Inc. is an absolute must read!  Here we have a crucial decision regarding the disclosure of ATE insurance premiums and whether, by doing so, the defendant would receive an ‘unfair tactical advantage’ by revealing the insurer’s assessment of the risk.  The following three updates in this edition you may wish to share with any of your colleagues involved with injury litigation.  CPR20 and 19 come under the spotlight next followed by another case decision looking at ATE premiums alongside overall deductions for costs from client damages.  We finish off this month with the liability outcome on a case we first brought you this time last year: Toombes v Mitchell.

ATEMatters January 2022