• Jackson - the latest news

• Is it unlawful to agree to cover your client's costs under a C.F.A.?

• Are children always entitled to costs in small claims?

• When the court will order an outsider to pay costs

• The consequences of failing to negotiate

Dominic Regan, Solicitor & Trainer in Legal Education

STRIKING OUT A STATEMENT OF CASE 

• Review of cases on the correct approach to a strike out application

• Procedural tactics

• Abuse of process - pointless and wasteful litigation

Simon Butler, Barrister, Ely Place Chambers

• Can I sue my litigation expert?

• Expert shopping

• The new Electronic Disclosure Rules October 2010

• Ordering disclosure of insurance cover

• Why Goodale is so important

Dominic Regan, Solicitor & Trainer in Legal Education

• Accepting a rejected offer

• Carver on the way out

• Can a withdrawn offer ever be taken into account?

• A new Part 36

Dominic Regan, Solicitor & Trainer in Legal Education

Limitation remains a complex, important and often dangerous area. Proposals for wholesale reform remain on the legislative B-list and meanwhile the authorities, good and bad, keep coming. This session aims both to remind and to update, including:

• A whistlestop tour of the Limitation Act

• Acknowledgement
   - what claims can be acknowledged and
   - without prejudice communications

• The date when damage occurs in professional negligence cases

• Personal injury - developments in the provisions as to date of knowledge and the s33 discretion

• Other extensions to the limitation period - fraud, deliberate concealment and mistake (all under s32 of the Act) and latent damage

• When is a defendant estopped from taking a limitation defence?

• Latest developments

A contemporaneous case-based analysis of common errors made by practitioners, including:

• The limitation period

• Service of proceedings

• Judgment in default

• Non-compliance with Court Orders

• Fraudulent claims

District Judge Stephen Gerlis, Barnet County Court