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The insider: 26 January 2024

26 January 2024 / Dominic Regan
Issue: 8056 / Categories: Opinion , Profession , Costs , Constitutional law
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It’s all go in the world of civil litigation, writes Dominic Regan. But what happens when there’s no one at fault to foot the bill?

Nothing stands still in the world of civil litigation.

The elevation last month of Sir Peter Fraser to the Court of Appeal was well deserved and long overdue. His conduct of the notorious Bates and others v Post Office Ltd [2019] civil litigation was brilliant and I think I suggested back then that it alone warranted a place in the Court of Appeal. Fraser LJ is known to his colleagues as ‘Iron Man’ on account of his appetite for triathlons and endurance sports.

The Metropolitan Police has reported it is ‘investigating potential fraud offences’ arising out of the Post Office prosecutions in respect of ‘monies recovered from subpostmasters as a result of prosecutions or civil actions’. The sublime Tom Little KC of Deka Chambers has oversight of this exercise.

The new wave of King’s Counsel has been unveiled. I naively thought that elevation moved the appointee into a new world of milk, honey

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