ATE and Security for Costs are in the spotlight again: The Court of Appeal recently overturned a High Court decision and limited the circumstances in which an ATE policy can be used to defeat an application for Security for Costs. The…
What does litigation funding mean to you? Mark Beaumont dispels the myths around funding insolvency litigation. Litigation funding means different things to different people. It’s a catch-all term that includes conditional fee agreements (CFAs), after-the-event (ATE) legal expenses insurance, damages based…
Commercial disputes worth between £100,000 and £1m: How do you fund them? There is a general assumption among many dispute resolution lawyers that lower value disputes cannot be funded by anyone other than the client. Clients pursuing litigation are therefore forced…
Mark Beaumont looks at the need to address the adoption of new technologies in dispute resolution, in an article that appeared in Recovery magazine’s Winter 2016 edition. “Technology is the collection of techniques, skills, methods and processes used in the production…
What is after-the-event (ATE) legal expenses insurance? Litigation is inherently risky. If a claim is unsuccessful the Claimant may have to pay the Defendant’s legal costs. ATE insurance is used to protect the Claimant from this risk: If the claimant loses,…