Kerry Underwood

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This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

Shakespeare wrote: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” (Henry The Sixth, Part 2 Act 4).

I would not normally bother dealing with an impact assessment as they are a waste of time and money and no Government has ever let one deflect it from what it wants to do.

Vince Rat has announced that the Queen is to be privatised.

Customers are reminded that if they do not have a ticket to Manchester they cannot travel to Manchester.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

“Let’s get one thing straight” says Tommy Tozzer, “‘Poor Law’ is not about helping poor people; it is about doing law badly.

Droning On dropped in at The Bus Pass Arms and caught up with Reg Geranium, 49, early retired assistant manager of the Electricity Pylons Aesthetics Council.

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This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

In Musst Holdings Ltd v Astra Asset Management UK Ltd & Anor (Costs as Damages) [2026] EWHC 1599 (Ch) the Chancery Division of the High Court was considering whether costs could be claimed as damages.

Members of the public will be trained to determine immigration and asylum appeals, including those involving human rights and foreign offenders, as well as immigration matters generally.

The Civil Justice Council is consulting on the reform of the Solicitors Act 1974 Part III, that is the section dealing with solicitor and own client retainers.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority has consulted on its proposed 2026/27 business plan, which requires massive increased funding from solicitors, almost entirely caused by the Solicitors Regulation Authority’s failure properly to deal with Axiom Ince and…

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

The outrageous system whereby solicitors are fined £400 by the Legal Ombudsman when innocent is about to get far worse and will accelerate the flee from the legal profession which is taking place, as the number of firms plummets.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

Today the SRA published new guidance on effective supervision https://www.sra.org.uk/solicitors/guidance/effective-supervision-guidance More from me in due course.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

In Ulrich Rued v Dormer & Anor [2026] EWHC 1074 (Ch) the Chancery Division of the High Court considered the validity, effectiveness, and consequences of two Part 36 offers, one made by the claimant and one by the defendant.

The Chair of the Solicitors Regulation Authority is to leave at the end of 2026 after what is almost universally regarded as a dreadful, incompetent and very damaging period in office and indeed a very damaging period in legal history.

In Ismailov (No 2) V Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs [2026] EWHC 1188 (Admin) the Administrative Court, part of the King’s Bench Division of the High Court, refused an application for judicial review of a decision by t…

I have been working for some time with Joe Al-Khayat, a commercial barrister and an award-winning tech entrepreneur who has previously designed and built technology for courts and lawyers.

I have been working for some time with Joe Al-Khayat, a commercial barrister and an award-winning tech entrepreneur who has previously designed and built technology for courts and lawyers.

I have been working for some time with Joe Al-Khayat, a commercial barrister and an award-winning tech entrepreneur who has previously designed and built technology for courts and lawyers.

In Anthony Malcolm Cork and Stephen Robert Leslie Cork v Mark Smith [2026] EWHC 1199 (Ch) the solicitors asked for a block transfer application and such matters are usually dealt with on the papers.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, in a very well written and detailed analysis of the Employment Tribunal backlog, has reported that a three-day case filed at the end of 2025 has been listed for hearing in January 2030.

The Government has instructed the Law Commission to assess whether the way consumer laws are enforced could be strengthened through the introduction of a Consumer Class Action regime.

SOLICITORS REGULATION AUTHORITY OUTSOURCING WORK TO SOLICITORS’ FIRMS WHICH THEN LIE The Solicitors Regulation Authority has been sending complaints about solicitors out to other firms of solicitors to assess without the consent or knowledge of the firm a…

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

I have been working for some time with Joe Al-Khayat, a commercial barrister and an award-winning tech entrepreneur who has previously designed and built technology for courts and lawyers.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.

This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more.