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Dispute resolution: No Legal advice privilege for claims consultants.
Walter Lilly & Company Ltd v Mackay & Anor [2012] EWHC 649 (TCC).Anybody instructing Claims consultants need to be very aware that communications between them are unlikely to be privileged from disclosure unless created in anticipation of proposed litigation.
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Solicitors Negligence. Refusal to mediate.
We wrote previously as to the claim Mason & Ors v Mills & Reeve. An interesting further aspect was the Court of Appeals view on Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and whether or not it was unreasonable of one party to refuse to engage in it.
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Solicitors Negligence
Mason & Ors v Mills & Reeve (A Firm) [2012] EWCA Civ 498 the Claimants lost a considerable part of their inheritance because their father died during heart surgery, just two weeks after selling his business for £3.5 million.