Insights

27th July 2016

BPE Solicitors and Randall & Payne Chartered Accountants hosted their quarterly RePLY networking event at Jolly Nice Farm Shop & Takeaway Café

26th July 2016

Anna Wood looks at a recent Court of Appeal decision which allowed the parties to vary a contract orally, despite its terms containing an “anti-oral variation clause”

19th July 2016

Katie Pickering looks at the first of the JCT 2016 Suite of contracts: the newly released Minor Works

19th July 2016

Not many people without legal training will have heard of the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930 (‘the 1930 Act’). Did you know that this little known act could, for example, allow you to recover sums from the insurer of an opponent who has gone bust? What’s more, getting a remedy against those insurers will be easier from August 2016.

19th July 2016

Parties to disputes which may be litigated or are already in litigation would do well to be aware of recent developments in relation to the cost consequences of offers made under Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules (‘CPR’). Emilie Sclater reviews recent case law on Part 36 settlement offers

19th July 2016

Katie Pickering looks at the two main ways of expressing a settlement offer and explains the key differences.