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Notification of Bristol Law Society AGM

Agenda 2021

Corporate Members 2021

3PB Albion Chambers Ashfords Barcan + Kirby Battens Beale & Co BLM Burges Salmon Clarke Willmott CMS CMNO Cooke Painter Ltd Clyde & Co DAC Beachcroft The Family Law Practice Foot Anstey (including Enable Law) Fussell Wright GL Law Guildhall Chambers Irwin Mitchell Solicitors Lyons Davidson Marc White & Co Meade King Osborne Clarke Paragon Costs Solutions Queen Square Chambers … more

No 12, The Meeting Rooms – Conference, Meeting and Mediation Rooms for Hire

Please note that the BLS office is shut to members at present as we continue to work from home during the pandemic.  Bristol Law Society’s suite of conference and meeting rooms including a suite of mediation rooms are conveniently located in the centre between the Waterfront Area and the Old City in a modern building situated on the corner of … more

Controversial new road accident costs rules to remain as High Court action fails

The Law Society has said that it regretted the failure of a High Court action brought by the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) and Motor Accident Solicitors Society (MASS) against the Government, which sought to overturn its decision to reduce legal costs recoverable by people injured in road accidents.  The Law Society had intervened in the case, on behalf of its 160,000 solicitor members.

 

Desmond Hudson, Chief Executive said:

“We remain deeply unhappy with the new recoverable costs rules and the process by which the Government made its decision. However it was clear that the decision, however unfair we considered it to be, was going to be difficult to challenge. We will continue to impress upon Government the need to ensure that those injured through no fault of their own need to be able to seek redress, without putting themselves in severe financial difficulties.”

The High Court ruled that the Government’s decision (to reduce the fixed costs recoverable by claimants, where the pre-action protocol for low value personal injury claims in road traffic accidents applied) was properly reached.