Welcome to the ‘spook-tacular’ Halloween edition of ATEMatters where you can ‘trick or treat’ yourself to our take on the latest key judgments and decisions affecting all things litigation. Make sure you share our ‘eerie-sistible’ ATEMatters with all your colleagues to give you all ‘pumpkin’ to talk about.
We start this month with a decision to hit a claimant with indemnity costs due to a ‘serious’ breach of the rules surrounding their witness statements.
“What is the duty of care owed to a client following engagement prior to entering into a formal retainer?” is the question posed in Miller v Irwin Mitchell LLP. A judgment concerning deductions from client damages is next under the spotlight followed by a Judge’s refusal to standby an argument to cap assessment costs.
Finally this month, two jointly heard appeal decisions relating to credit hire charges which I’m sure will be of interest to any colleagues involved in RTA work.
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Until next month, we’d like to ‘witch’ you a ‘fang-tastic’ Halloween.
ATEMatters October 2022