Piperjuris Solicitors & Advocates

01/09/2025

We work hard to make sure that our clients have value for their legal spends, measured by their expectations in terms of greater efficiency, predictability, and cost effectiveness in service delivery.

11/09/2024

We have a Legal Aid franchise in family law. This means our solicitors have the authority to grant emergency legal aid for certain areas of family law.

We work hard to make sure that our clients have value for their legal spends, measured by their expectations in terms of greater efficiency, predictability, and cost effectiveness in service delivery.

04/05/2022

The High Court has held in Underwood & Anor v Bounty UK Ltd & Anor [2022] EWHC 888 (QB) (13 April 2022), that: "Claims for exemplary damages are wholly exceptional. The cases in which such damages can properly be claimed are very few; those in which they are awarded fewer still. It is never appropriate to add a claim for exemplary damages simply to mark how upset the claimant is about the defendant's conduct, or as some sort of negotiating strategy."

04/05/2022

The Court of Appeal, in Park v Hadi & Anor [2022] EWCA Civ 581, has restated the principles that: "An application for relief from sanctions should be made (and usually is made) by a Part 23 application notice supported by a witness statement. It is, however, clear that the court has a discretion to grant relief from sanctions in two situations: where (as in the present case) no formal application notice has been issued, but an application is made informally at a hearing; or where no application is made, even informally, but the court acts of its own initiative. The discretion must of course be exercised consistently with the overriding objective."

iv) Should permission to amend be made subject to a condition that Mr Park must satisfy the outstanding costs order (a sum in excess of £27,000) and pay £50,000 into court by way of security for costs?

04/05/2022

I-A (Revocation of Adoption Order) [2021] EWCA Civ 1222: The Court of Appeal decides the issue as to whether adoption orders made in respect of the Children in the absence of their Mother, without a hearing should be revoked.

05/10/2021

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