Legal line-up appointed to tackle reform of civil litigation costs
Berrymans Lace Mawer's head of policy development, Alistair Kinley, has been appointed to chair a working party put together by the Civil Justice Council to look at the implementation of Lord Justice Jackson's reforms of civil litigation. Kinley will chair a line-up of 17 lawyers on the working group, which has been set up to help implement secondary legislation relating to Jackson's impending reform of litigation funding.
August 22, 2011 at 11:14 AM
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Berrymans Lace Mawer's head of policy development, Alistair Kinley, has been appointed to chair a working party put together by the Civil Justice Council to look at the implementation of Lord Justice Jackson's reforms of civil litigation.
Kinley will chair a line-up of 17 lawyers on the working group, which has been set up to help implement secondary legislation relating to Jackson's impending reform of litigation funding.
The group also includes Hogan Lovells London litigation partner Graham Huntley, McGuireWoods partner Hardeep Nahal, Keoghs partner Don Clarke and Hugh James partner Mark Harvey. They sit alongside 4 New Square's Nick Bacon QC and representatives from companies including Tesco, Aviva and AXA.
The lawyers are expected to report back by the end of September this year.
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke confirmed the Government's wholesale backing of the Jackson reforms of civil litigation costs earlier this summer (21 June) in the new Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, which was unveiled in June.
In addition to confirming its intention to plough ahead with plans to cut its £2.1bn annual legal aid bill, the Government confirmed its intention to implement Jackson's recommendations to cut civil litigation costs.
The reforms include the abolition of the recoverability of success fees and associated costs in 'no win, no fee' conditional fee arrangements, with claimants to pay their lawyers' success fees instead.
The working party will not revisit the policy objectives set out in the Bill.
The working group in full
Janet Tilley, managing partner, Coleman Tilley
John Usher, legal adviser, USDAW
Colin Stutt, formerly of the Legal Services Commission
Mark Harvey, partner and head of claimant division, Hugh James
Nick Bacon QC, 4 New Square
Howard Grand, senior solicitor, Aviva
David Fisher, catastrophic & injury claims technical manager, AXA
David Bott, managing partner, Bott & Co
Don Clarke, partner, Keoghs
Judith Gledhill, head of personal injury, Thompsons
Hardeep Nahal, partner, McGuireWoods
Graham Huntley, partner, Hogan Lovells
Mandy Knowlton, Risk officer, Rayner Norfolk County Council
Kay Majid, senior counsel, Tesco
Kathryn Mortimer, head of legal, DAS
Rocco Pirozzolo, underwriting manager, QBE
Hilary Homfray, solicitor, Birmingham City Council
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