Lord Briggs championed voluntary adjudication and gave qualified support to the use of fixed costs and one way costs-shifting to promote access to justice

In a wonderful celebration of 20 years since formation of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association on 11 November 2024, Lord Briggs provided a keynote address which is now reported in the Law Society Gazette in an article by Ashley Morgan and Tim Constable of Bates Wells https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/practice-points/lord-briggs-defends-fixed-recoverable-costs-regime-for-professional-negligence-cases/5121773.article

This talk is timely with the Civil Justice Council currently conducting a review of liitigation funding and costs which is seeking responses by 31 January 2025 see
https://www.pnla.org.uk/calling-for-evidence-costs-litigation-funding-survey-civil-justice-council-can-you-provide-one-example-by-20-january-2025/

The PNLA gratefully thank Lord Briggs for his keynote address, Patrick Lawrence KC for chairing the 11 November 2024 celebration and Tim Constable and the team at Bates Wells for hosting together with all those who attended – a few photos in the image above!