Indemnity Costs in UK Law
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Doubled indemnity: the costs of employers' liability insurance are spiralling in the UK as 'compensation culture' takes hold in this country. Well over 200,000 British firms are breaking the law because they can't afford the requisite cover. Cathy Hayward reports on how the government, businesses and the insurance industry are tackling the problem.
...After knocking back cocktails in a Soho bar for five hours, a twentysomething female professional wearing three-inch heels falls down the stairs on her way out and pulls a tendon in her ankle. Will she get a cab home, bandage up her foot and nurse he......
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New Carrots and Sticks: Proposals for Reform of CPR Part 36
Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules is an important component of English civil procedure's costs apportioning mechanism and its primary means of encouraging early settlement. Two changes to make P...... ... Secondly,the costs pro - tection given to a claimantthat betters its Part 36 o¡er at trial ^ indemnity costs assessment and enhanced interest ^ would apply to defendants’ ... ...
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Court castigates BCCI liquidators' claim against Bank of England
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how BCCI liquidators' claim against the Bank of England has been castigated. Design/methodology/approach: The paper outlines the facts surrounding...... ... The costs incurred by both sides in this litigation were estimated to be inexcess of ... basis but, if notagreed, to be assessed and paid on an “indemnity” basis which allows for fuller andmore substantial recovery, or as Mr ... ...
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Civil Procedure and the Lawyers—The Adversary System and the Decline of the Orality Principle
... ... The most important of these is the operation of the indemnity costs rule whereby, in general, losing parties pay the professional ... ...
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Costs in Small Claims Cases
... ... 9.5.2 Standard basis or indemnity basis? ... Costs are usually awarded on the ‘standard basis’, which means that the court will only award the amount it considers to be ... ...
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The Green Papers and Legal Services
... ... rights will make little practical difference to divorce costs but the private litigant is particularly sensitive to the cost of ... , however, that there is no intention to remove the “indemnity costs rule” whereby the loser in civil litigation pays a ... ...
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Practice Direction - Pre-Action Conduct and Protocols: Extracts
... ... the efficient management of those proceedings; and (f) reduce the costs of resolving the dispute ... Steps before issuing a claim at court ... (b) an order that the party at fault pay those costs on an indemnity basis; (c) if the party at fault is a claimant who has been awarded a sum ... ...
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The statutory unfair prejudice remedy for minority shareholder protection in Pakistan. Difficulties of section 290 of the Companies Ordinance 1984
Purpose: The unfair prejudice remedy as contained in s.290 of the Companies Ordinance 1984 entitles a member with a shareholding of twenty percent or more to petition to the court for suitable and ...... ... prejudice petition,the court is competent to grant damages and costs to the aggrieved shareholders.Nevertheless, the ambit of damages which may ... rely on various grounds of allegations (Cheung, 2008).Cost indemnity orderThe petitioner should be entitled to cost indemnity order in ... ...
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Fire and Liability Insurances
It is disturbing for industry that, in a time of recession, with relatively low levels of production, the cost of fire wastage should continue to rise. For 1980, the estimated cost of fire damage i...... ... as though management have been trying to cut corners, so as to save costs wherever possible. It is particularly important, at this time, that ... to establish with this type of in-surance are the level of indemnity required, and the period for which a claim can be made. Clearly, it is ... ...
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Litigation
... ... 2203 (i) Introduction 2203 (ii) Considerations 2203 (iii) Costs 2206 Ex parte application 2206 Security for costs 2207 (i) Introduction ... 2259 (iii) Basis of award 2262 (iv) Standard basis 2268 (v) Indemnity basis 2269 (vi) Multiple parties 2272 (vii) Agreement as to payment of ... ...
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