Riding the Storm
Matthew Amey• September 1st, 2011
The campaign over the civil justice reforms is often characterised, or caricatured depending on which side of the divide you sit on, as a battle for the hearts of ministers between claimant lawyers fighting for the rights of defenceless accident … Continued
Jackson hits Parliament among legal aid storm
Matthew Amey• August 17th, 2011
Overshadowed by a political row over reversals in its criminal justice sentencing policy, the Ministry of Justice also confirmed this week its plan to overhaul England and Wales’ GBP 2 billion-plus system of legal aid, alongside reforms to sentencing and … Continued
Intensive Care
Matthew Amey• June 29th, 2011
The NHSLA is on a slippery slope by offering voluntary one-way costs shifting, writes Matthew Amey When Sir Rupert Jackson’s recommendations were first published in January 2010, the suggestion that recoverability of premiums should be abolished was clearly of great … Continued
Mirror, mirror on the wall
Matthew Amey• June 1st, 2011
Over the past decade, after the event (‘ATE’) underwriters have begun to better understand the dynamic between the quality of the case and the quality of the legal representation. It has always been true in theory that a comparatively poor … Continued
Theory of Evolution
Matthew Amey• June 1st, 2009
In the 200th anniversary year of Darwin’s birth, the world of litigation funding is witnessing its own form of convergent evolution between After-the-Event insurance (ATE) and Third Party Funding (TPF). In the natural world, two entirely distinct species with differing … Continued