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1 November 2026
Driver-assistance systems, dashcams and event data recorders now decide many RTA disputes. What each records, how reliable it is, and how to use it to settle.
Read the articleTechnical & automotive
The Automated Vehicles Act 2024, robotaxi pilots in London, and what happens to liability, evidence and settlement when software was driving the car.
Injury & road traffic
Liability, causation and credit hire disputes in RTA claims turn on engineering evidence. Why a mediator who can read it changes the settlement day.
Property
What drives neighbour and boundary disputes, why court is such a poor fit for them, and how a one-day mediation reaches terms both households can live with.
Mediation
A plain guide to the mediation day for first-time attendees: who is in the room, how the day runs, what gets written down and what stays confidential.
Inheritance
How claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975 work, why they settle, and what mediation achieves that a judgment cannot.
Technical & automotive
How impact analysis reads vehicle damage: energy absorption, delta-V, stiffness and the limits of photographs. What it proves in a dispute, and what it cannot.
Injury & road traffic
Need, rate, period and impecuniosity: the four pressure points in credit hire litigation, the leading authorities, and where settlements really land.
Injury & road traffic
How the 2015 Rehabilitation Code works in practice — the immediate needs assessment, who pays, what stays out of the litigation, and why both sides use it.
Injury & road traffic
What a joint settlement meeting is, when it works in litigated injury claims, and how position papers, authority and Part 36 shape the day.
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