Richard Barr

Tales from practice: Postman Barr

Based on lawyers' hourly rate, 60p is still a good deal to have a letter delivered by the Post Office, says Richard Barr

Defective product legislation offers a faster alternative to negligence claims

A fire caused by a defective product at Richard Barr's cottage made our regular chronicler take a closer look at the Consumer Protection Act

Under siege

Richard Barr reports from the frontline of the compensation culture war

Lord Justice Jackson's review of costs in civil litigation proceedings promised to deliver recommendations for a fairer, more proportionate access to justice. One year and nearly 600 pages later, Sir Rupert has made a set of inter-dependent proposals turning the principle of full recovery on its head. Fraser Whitehead gives his analysis of the report from the claimants' perspective and Raj Patel and Saqib Khan provide the defendants' view; Richard Barr considers the likely implications for clinical negligence claims, and Rod Dadak looks at the consequences for libel cases

A judicial road trip

Richard Barr's latest 'Tales from practice' about his recent trip to Spalding (Solicitors Journal 153/37, 6 October 2009) got me thinking about some of the far flung corners of England I've visited in my career.

Experts at risk

Richard Barr reflects on the impact of the MMR and Meadow litigation

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