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
The ruling in Carver encourages claimants to settle their claims before unacceptably high costs are incurred, so why did Jackson LJ resist calls not to reverse it, asks Richard Langley
Noel Arnold reviews cases on the threshold test and evidential issues in interim orders, fact-finding costs in private law cases, directions for residential assessments, and the two-stage approach in private law proceedings
James Aspden considers recent developments concerning the protection of gifts to charities including mental capacity, laches and disputes over costs in probate claims
The recession is changing how pensions are managed in the UK and has created several new challenges for both trustees and employers, says Kate Richards
The position of many claimants in actions against the police remains far from comfortable, despite the decision in Hoare, as they face several uncertainties when pursuing their case – not least the difficulty in securing public funding, say Stephen Chippeck and Nicholas Turner
In the second part of its 2010 forecast, Solicitors Journal picks out the areas likely to see some of the more significant changes, considering what practitioners should look out for in crime, local authority, private client and charity law this year
The courts are unlikely to displace the traditional approach to contract formation unless there is proof that both parties intended for certain terms to prevail, says Masood Ahmed
