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Solomonic’s year-end analysis highlights key trends from 2024, revealing a sharp drop in Commercial Court activity, a slowdown in new group actions and a plateau in winding up petitions.
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Solomonic’s year-end analysis highlights key trends from 2024, revealing a sharp drop in Commercial Court activity, a slowdown in new group actions and a plateau in winding up petitions.
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Caution is the watchword in the absence of any standout new issue around which a new seam of disputes has flowed in the first half of 2024. The Solomonic Half-year Review 2024 unpacks the numbers behind claim volumes, high value litigation, law firm movers and shakers and much more.
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The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War has had a significant impact on the UK High Court. In the first quarter of 2023, there has been a surge in insurance claims related to aircraft seized in Russia. Additionally, there has been a continued increase in winding up petitions and a noticeable rise in the number of group action claims being filed.
Litigation analytics improves predictions and outcomes in litigation by combining statistical analysis, modelling and human review. It enhances the role of litigators and helps them provide better advice based on accurate data. It assists in determining case strategy, finding the best arguments, and facilitating settlement negotiations. Although the availability of case data in the UK is limited, the demand for data-driven decision-making is increasing.
Solomonic closely monitors litigation claims and provides valuable market intelligence and data to customers such as lawyers, insurers, and litigation funders. Daily updates on newly issued claims are particularly useful because defendants are often unaware of them. This information is crucial for staying ahead, whether as a litigant, insurer, or litigator seeking to build relationships with clients or prospects.
Solomonic, as the UK’s most comprehensive commercial litigation database, has compiled a review of the 2022 year in commercial litigation in the High Court.
Claim volume for Q3 2022 totalled just over 1,900, a 10% increase on the same period in 2021. As a whole, quarterly claim volume has grown substantially since the first quarter of 2019.
Approximately 2,300 disputes have been brought to the Queen’s Bench and Chancery divisions in the first half of 2022. This is a decline of almost 17% compared with the first 6 months of 2021.
Solomonic data shows relatively consistent ligation activity when compared to the last two years, despite continued global instability. Analysis explores new claims issued and activity levels across the topmost active sectors.
Thousands of law firms have serviced the litigation market in the last 5 years - top 15 most active firms consistently hold 20% of new claims issued market share YOY, including RPC, Clyde & Co and Clifford Chance.
Solomonic, as the UK’s most comprehensive commercial litigation database, has compiled a review of the 2021 year in commercial litigation in the High Court. The report reveals new insights into the second year of the pandemic and how it played out in terms of new commercial disputes.
Solomonic analysis concludes, despite challenges presented by the pandemic, new claim activity in the High Court finished almost on a par with 2020.
By the end of Q3 2021, a total of almost 4,000 disputes had been brought to the High Court. Despite the easing of pandemic restrictions, this is a decrease in claim volume compared to the same period last year, although still higher than 2019.
Covid-19 has had a hugely disruptive impact in many areas of the economy and generated a great deal of speculation about the state of the disputes sector and forecast growth in claims originating from Covid and its consequences.
We take a look back on the first 4 months of 2021 (Jan-Apr), a year poised to reflect not only the early days of litigation in post-Brexit Britain, but also the road to recovery from Covid-19 and its economic impacts.
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