Chris Makin’s Recent Blog Posts
Expert Accountants – When Should You Use One To Estimate Loss Of Earnings?
The answer in a nutshell is when professional experience is required to assist the Court to understand a party’s financial affairs. Kemp & Kemp, excellent in many ways, used to deal only very briefly with loss of income for the self-employed, the member of a family business, and the senior executive whose pay and benefits […]
Expert Determination – Is It Alternate Dispute Resolution?
When framing the Civil Procedure Rules, Lord Woolf had the clear intention of encouraging parties in dispute to go away and settle their differences, perhaps with the help of trained professionals. We see this in CPR Part 1 – The Overriding Objective: 1.4(1) The court must further the overriding objective by actively managing cases. […]
How To Prepare For Mediation
Litigation is deadly serious. Lawyers must prepare for it very carefully, and that is a lengthy process. Mediation is different – or is it? Well, it is different, but mediation, too, is deadly serious, and preparation for it must be just as thorough. The biggest difference is the dynamics, because the parties are in charge […]