Total new instructions:
121
- Civil, Chancery, Tribunals
and miscellaneous - 83%
- Criminal - 7%
- Child/family - 8%
- Coroners - 2%
Civil breakdown (meant to have been controlled by booking an equal number of claimant and defendant cases each calendar month. Again it has not quite worked but the imbalance is now in the opposite direction to 2008):
- Claimants solicitors - 49%
- Defendants solicitors/insurers - 46%
- Single joint expert - 5%
Criminal breakdown*:
- Defence - 67%
- Prosecution - 0%
- Court - 33%
*NB - based on small numbers
Court/tribunal/inquest appearances - 7
Conferences with counsel - 13
Experts memoranda of agreement - 19
Answers to questions - 6