The essential case law costs and procedure case law update for Autumn 2025:
- Expert evidence
- Defendant applications for facilities – where are we up to and what next?
- QOCS
- Fundamental dishonesty
- Disapplication where the proceedings are for the benefit of another – credit hire
- Part 36
- Form and content
- Defendant penalties when the claimant betters their own offer
- Capacity Issues
- Establishment
- Resisting defendant intermeddling
Vice President, Law Society
Brett is a consultant solicitor with higher rights of audience for all civil proceedings. His specialism is civil procedure with a specific interest in digital change. He also provides training and consultancy services in relation to personal injury, technology and practice development.
He is also the Deputy Vice President Elect of the Law Society of England & Wales. He has been the president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers on two occasions. He is a senior fellow of APIL and chair of the Senior Fellow Appointments Committee. He is involved in decisions in relation to interventions in civil proceedings recently including Belsner v Cam, Ho v Adelekun, and Hassam v Rabot along with judicial reviews by APIL of the fixed recoverable costs rules and the discount rate. He is a past member of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee and the current legal expert member of the Online Procedure Rule Committee. He is a director of Medco and a member of the Official Injuries Advisory Group... view full biography