Category: Legal

How Road Traffic Claims Lawyers Get Paid – If Other Trades Worked This Way

In road traffic litigation, the question isn’t simply how a lawyer is paid – it’s whether they are paid for the work they do. Every task, every minute, every action is scrutinised, categorised, challenged, reduced, or disallowed by regulators, guideline tables, costs judges and subjected to somewhat amorphous proportionality tests. As absurd as this sounds, it is very

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MASS Conference 2026 Programme

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The Challenges of Traumatic Brain Injuries

Legal / massoffice

One of the major issues facing personal injury practitioners in road traffic accidents is the issue of discrete brain injuries. As ever, it will come down to the evidence that you obtain. clues Common features of mild traumatic brain injuries, post-concussion syndrome and mild neurocognitive disorder due to traumatic brain injury relate to the

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Fixed Costs, Mazur and the Risk of a Two-Tier RTA Market

Legal / massoffice

The point (before anyone reaches for the violins) This isn’t a “woe is me” piece. Plenty of people have it harder than claimant lawyers, and nobody is entitled to a commercially viable business model simply because we’d quite like one. But we are entitled — and more importantly, clients are entitled — to a civil

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The real cost of driving without insurance

Consumer, Legal / massoffice

Motor insurance is one of those expenses many drivers resent. With premiums rising year after year, particularly for younger motorists, it can feel less like a safeguard and more like a financial burden. In the midst of ongoing cost-of-living pressures, it’s understandable that people begin to question what they can afford to cut back on.

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Get The Balance Right – Increased Litigation In Scotland

Legal / massoffice

Recently, Scottish Defender Agents have produced a series of articles in Industry Journals and in The Scotsman newspaper bemoaning an increase in the number of litigated cases in Scotland and suggesting that Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (QOCS) is something that requires to be looked at as they consider it to be giving those pursuing claims

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Rural road crashes in Scotland

Consumer, Legal / massoffice

As a partner of a leading Scottish personal injury practice, we see a lot of rural road crashes caused by tourists unfamiliar with our country roads. The Scottish rural economy is heavily dependent on attracting tourist visitors though, and the catastrophic effects of such collisions put a strain on how those risks can be better

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The Whiplash Reforms & MASS’ response to the Post-Implementation Review

Legal / massoffice

The government’s post-implementation review of the whiplash reforms marks a key moment for RTA Claims practitioners. Several years after the introduction of the Civil Liability Act 2018, the OIC portal, and the whiplash tariff, claimant solicitors can now provide detailed feedback on how the whiplash reforms have affected access to justice and the handling of

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Cycle helmets, deregulation and VAR: the ‘moral dimension’

Legal / massoffice

From among the many valuable insights that were shared by some really excellent speakers at the 2024 MASS annual conference, it is one relatively casual reference which has continued to recur in my mind ever since. It came during a discussion about representing the needs of injured cyclists, when I confess I was slightly surprised

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Navigating the Battle Lines: Fixed Recoverable Costs in the Intermediate Track

Legal / massoffice

If you’re involved in civil litigation, you’ve probably heard about the new Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC) regime for the Intermediate Track. These changes, which came into effect on October 1, 2023, are shaking up the way we handle cases valued between £25,000 and £100,000. But what does this mean for you and your clients? Let’s

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How Road Traffic Claims Lawyers Get Paid – If Other Trades Worked This Way

MASS Conference 2026 Programme

The Challenges of Traumatic Brain Injuries

Fixed Costs, Mazur and the Risk of a Two-Tier RTA Market

The real cost of driving without insurance

Get The Balance Right – Increased Litigation In Scotland

Rural road crashes in Scotland

The Whiplash Reforms & MASS’ response to the Post-Implementation Review

Cycle helmets, deregulation and VAR: the ‘moral dimension’

Navigating the Battle Lines: Fixed Recoverable Costs in the Intermediate Track

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