As you may have heard on the grapevine, Mrs Claus and I will not be working this Christmas. We have managed to bag a last-minute package deal to the Democratic Republic of Barbados.

There now ought to be no doubt in our minds that the collective proceedings order is an important feature on the litigation landscape. Two Competition Appeal Tribunal decisions provide some useful lessons.

The recent news that two large litigation funders have exited the market may have causes unease among solicitors regarding some of the litigation and disbursement funding solutions in the market.

As a business we agreed recently that it was imperative to become a sustainable business. The questions were: why, how long is it going to take, who’s going to believe us – and what actually is sustainability?

The imbalance between cost protection and access to justice has led to increased frustration for claimants, particularly in the context of funded group litigation.