This webinar will give an overview of how does the Claimant might seek to recover indemnity costs when the Defendant alleges fundamental dishonesty for 2025, including:
- The legal basis for fundamental dishonesty
- Ethical and professional considerations when making allegations of dishonesty
- The impact of allegations about dishonesty on a claim and the work required as a result
- Steps to consider when allegations of fundamental dishonesty are made
- Evidence, allocation and assignment of claims involving allegations
- Use of Part 36
- Fixed costs (including exceptionality and unreasonable behaviour)
- Costs budgeting (including assumptions for and revisions of costs budgets)
- Relevant considerations to the court’s exercise of discretion as to costs under Part 44
- Latest cases
APIL Past President, Director of Switalskis Solicitors Ltd
John McQuater qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and is a Director of Personal Injury, and member of the Complex Injury Team, at Switalskis Solicitors.
He is a member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme and a member of the Law Society Personal Injury Accreditation Scheme (as well as being an assessor for that scheme). He had, whilst the scheme was operation, Catastrophic Injury Accreditation from the Law Society... view full biography