Unbolted litigation settles on confidential terms

A long running legal dispute between an SRA-regulated solicitor and the peer-to-peer lending platform Open Access Finance Ltd has settled, the mouseinthecourt can exclusively report.

Solicitor suggesting Sainsbury’s shoplifting slander specifies seriously substantial spend

The High Court has approved a cost budget of £100k a side in a dispute between the national supermarket Sainsbury’s and a solicitor who says he was slandered by a security guard who apparently shouted “you are a shoplifter….you should be in jail” when walking out the store.

Solicitor blocked from conducting “a classic fishing expedition”, costs judge rules

An SRA-regulated solicitor, who settled a civil claim against a self-styled “leading provider of specialist mortgages and property finance“, and was then hit by a legal costs bill, is challenging them at the High Court.

Solicitor makes even more “scandalous allegations”, High Court told, as it’s ruled he doesn’t have to pay security for costs

An SRA-regulated solicitor, who had previously told a court that this humble blogger had attacked him outside a court building leaving him “close to death“, has deployed further “scandalous allegations” in a signed witness statement, the High Court has been told. Examples of the “baseless assertions and commentary“, said to be in a recent witness

Solicitor sent “disgraceful and inexcusable” communications in £40k property dispute, court finds

SRA-regulated solicitor Andrew Jonathan Milne has been told he must sell a block of flats in North Wales after the existing leaseholders were not offered the chance to buy the building first, the county court has ruled. The judge has also reported Milne “to the Solicitors Regulation Authority for consideration and, if appropriate, investigation” after