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Specialist legal expenses insurer Temple Legal Protection is delighted to announce the appointment of John Durbin as a Senior Business Development Manager. A highly experienced professional, he joins the Temple team providing ATE insurance and disbursement funding to specialist clinical negligence and personal injury law firms.

Shakespeare would probably have enjoyed the verbal jousting on social media and Hamlet’s ponderings about human existence in general could also have worked online. But with Twitter in the news again as Elon Musk considers taking over the company and into private ownership, we ask whether this is all ‘much ado about nothing’ or if libel law needs to restrain the worst excesses of online debate.

Temple Legal Protection were delighted to host a drinks reception at the prestigious Lowry Hotel in Manchester last October supporting well-known local charity BASIC (Brain and Spinal Injury Centre), based in nearby Salford.

I like to get my crystal ball out each year and look at what may be the key trends in commercial litigation. For 2022, insolvency, professional negligence, media, financial mis-selling and Covid look key.

In the context of ATE insurance and before the trial of the claim, this often will mean the confidence in the insured’s case has been seriously eroded. Unsurprisingly the cause of such erosion can be a number of factors – disclosure may throw up inconvenient evidence, an expert’s report may be less than supportive, or inconsistencies identified in a key witness’s recollection of events that took place a long time ago.