Civil Litigation
Civil Litigation Expenses
March 16th
Edinburgh
It is now over four years since the Taylor Report proposed quite sweeping changes to the system of funding and expenses for civil litigation. We now have the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) Bill about to come into force in the near future and various proposals which ultimately will require changes to the Sheriff Court and Court of Session Rules to implement. In certain areas such as summary assessment of expenses the Courts have already taken proactive steps. What changes are likely to come in and when? How should we adapt to these as civil court practitioners? What will be the opportunities and the pitfalls for us? Tim Edward has been a practitioner for over 25 years and will try to assess what the new landscape has in store.
The seminar will cover the following:
The event begins at 2pm. Delegate registration is open from 1:30pm.
Tim is a Partner and Head of Commercial Dispute Resolution, specialising in insolvency and company litigation. He works closely with the Company Department in providing advice in these areas and has experience of handling large-scale commercial litigations. Tim also heads up the firm's professional indemnity insurance unit which handles all types of professional negligence claims, specialising particularly in architects' and engineers' negligence. Tim is an accredited specialist in professional negligence by the Law Society of Scotland.
