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SENIOR COURT COSTS OFFICE GUIDE 2025
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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MISCONDUCT IN COSTS ASSESSMENT kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...
MISCONDUCT IN COSTS ASSESSMENT
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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November 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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SOLICITORS ACT ASSESSMENTS, TIME LIMITS, AND LACHES kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/s...
SOLICITORS ACT ASSESSMENTS, TIME LIMITS, AND LACHES
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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WINNING DEFENDANT HOSPITAL ORDERED TO PAY COSTS FOR FALSELY ALLEGING FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/w...
WINNING DEFENDANT HOSPITAL ORDERED TO PAY COSTS FOR FALSELY ALLEGING FUNDAMENTAL DISHONESTY
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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November 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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WIGAN ATHLETIC V HEMEL HEMPSTEAD TOWN: FA CUP FIRST ROUND kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/w...
WIGAN ATHLETIC V HEMEL HEMPSTEAD TOWN: FA CUP FIRST ROUND
In one of my other lives, I am the longstanding Vice Chair of Hemel Hempstead Town Football Club of National League South, and we are in the First Round Prop for only the third time in our long his…
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October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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MAZUR: HAS IT BEEN WRONGLY DECIDED?  CAN WE ALL GO BACK TO SLEEP?
My second Zoominar : 4.00pm Thursday, 16 October 2025 lasting 1.5 hours; a recording and notes will be sent whether or not you attend live and as many of your colleagues as you want can attend the …
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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RIGHTS OF AUDIENCE AND MAZUR
This subject will be discussed in my 1.5 hour Zoominar on Thursday, 16 October 2025 at 4pm and you and your colleagues will receive a recording and notes, whether or not you can attend and it can b…
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October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – AN INTERVIEW WITH KERRY – NOT JUST ABOUT THE LAW
Here is a podcast of a 28 minute interview of me by Dr Siamak Goudarzi of Nexter Law
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October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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REGULATORS SEEKING TO CRUSH LAWYERS: A DANGEROUS STATE OF AFFAIRS
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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October 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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AI: ARTIFICIAL IDIOCY. WHERE WILL IT END FOR LAWYERS? PRISON
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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REVIEW SOLICITORS: BEWARE
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: WAS THE INTERFERENCE WITH RIGHTS PROPORTIONATE? (6)
321.         First, a theme of the reasons advanced for freezing Mr Shvidler’s assets is that he should be sanctioned, not for anything that he was doing or threatening to do at the time of his des…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: IMPACT ON THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL (5)
292.         Unlike such freezing orders, an asset-freeze imposed under the Regulations is not justified by any claim to recover funds held by the individual whose assets are frozen; nor is it subj…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS:  PROPORTIONATE RESPONSE – BALANCE BETWEEN STATE AND INDIVIDUAL (4)
Key quote The function of rights is to set limits to the circumstances in which the interests of individuals may be overridden by the interests of the community at large. Depriving a person of thei…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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SUPREME COURT: THE BASIS OF THE DESIGNATION OF MR SHVIDLER (3)
259.      Mr Shvidler has been designated by name under regulation 5(1)(a) for the purposes of regulations 11 to 15. Regulation 11(1) prohibits him or anyone else from “dealing …
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September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: THE SEPARATION OF POWERS (2)
Lord Leggatt deals with the separation of powers at Paragraph 255 and 256 set out below. The key point is that in disagreement with the majority of the Supreme Court, he says: “But what I believe t…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: LORD LEGGATT’S DISSENTING JUDGMENT IN SUPREME COURT (1)
In my blog piece – BRITISH CITIZENS AND RUSSIA: TWO CHILLING AUTHORITARIAN SUPREME COURT DECISIONS I set out the whole of Lord Leggatt’s dissenting Judgment. In a series of blogs, I am now goi…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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SOME PREDICTIONS
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE!
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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ONLY SOLICITORS OR EXEMPT PEOPLE CAN CONDUCT LITIGATION – NOT PARALEGALS – MAJOR HIGH COURT DECISION: YOU MAY NEED TO RE-ORGANIZE TOTALLY YOUR FIRM
I am conducting a one-hour Zoominar on this subject at 4pm this afternoon, Thursday, 18 September 2025. Whether or not you can attend, you will be sent a recording and notes. The cost is £100 plus …
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September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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SOLICITORS’ FIRMS CLOSING AT 3.6 TIMES THE RATE OF PUBS
The latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority show that solicitors’ firms are closing at 3.6 times the rate at which Public Houses are closing, with both sets of figures being for Eng…
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September 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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ONLY SOLICITORS OR EXEMPT PEOPLE CAN CONDUCT LITIGATION - NOT PARALEGALS - MAJOR HIGH COURT DECISION: YOU MAY NEED TO RE-ORGANIZE TOTALLY YOUR FIRM kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/o...
ONLY SOLICITORS OR EXEMPT PEOPLE CAN CONDUCT LITIGATION – NOT PARALEGALS – MAJOR HIGH COURT DECISION: YOU MAY NEED TO RE-ORGANIZE TOTALLY YOUR FIRM
I am conducting a one-hour Zoominar on this subject at 4pm this afternoon, Thursday, 18 September 2025. Whether or not you can attend, you will be sent a recording and notes. The cost is £100 plus …
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September 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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SOLICITORS’ FIRMS CLOSING AT 3.6 TIMES THE RATE OF PUBS kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/s...
SOLICITORS’ FIRMS CLOSING AT 3.6 TIMES THE RATE OF PUBS
The latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority show that solicitors’ firms are closing at 3.6 times the rate at which Public Houses are closing, with both sets of figures being for Eng…
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September 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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DIESELGATE COSTS SLASHED AGAIN – TIME TO SCRAP GROUP ACTIONS kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/d...
DIESELGATE COSTS SLASHED AGAIN – TIME TO SCRAP GROUP ACTIONS
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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ZOOMINARS: AUTUMN 2025 kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/z...
ZOOMINARS: AUTUMN 2025
Below are details of a series of seven forthcoming Zoominars, all at 4.00pm and all lasting one hour. For more information and to book please click here. Recordings will be sent to all delegates, w…
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September 16, 2025 at 3:36 PM