We’re unsexy and we know it!

Jul 2, 2024

We’re unsexy and we know it! The widely reported panel session on litigation funding, at the recent London International Disputes Week, was wide ranging and thought provoking, with several insightful comments from Judge Sara Cockerill, former head of the Commercial...

SIZE ISN’T EVERYTHING by Chris Deadman

Dec 6, 2023

SIZE ISN’T EVERYTHING by Chris Deadman It wasn’t so long ago that litigation funding was regarded with a degree of suspicion by some lawyers. The notion that a piece of litigation could be treated as nothing more than an investment proposition from which a third party...

Challenge to a Trustee in Bankruptcy’s decision overturned on appeal

Aug 15, 2023

Challenge to a Trustee in Bankruptcy’s decision overturned on appeal [ Patley Wood Farm LLP and others v Kicks and another [2023] EWCA Civ 901] Mini-summary The Trustees in Bankruptcy successfully appealed a decision which had, in effect, forced them to become...

The impact of the PACCAR decision on litigation funders and Apex

Aug 2, 2023

The impact of the PACCAR decision on litigation funders and Apex There has been much discussion in the legal and professional press about the consequences to litigation funders of the recent Supreme Court decision in R (on the application of PACCAR Inc and others) v...