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Kerry Underwood

Kerry Underwood

Senior partner , Underwoods Solicitors

Solicitor since 1981. Former Employment Tribunal Judge. Leading expert on conditional fees, funding, and fixed costs. Author of several books on these subjects. Writer and editor of Kerry On Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems And So Much More… Consultant to firms of solicitors, Commonwealth Governments, etc.

Articles

Has the time come for contingency fees?
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Has the time come for contingency fees?

Is it time to head straight for contingency fees without passing through the intermediary stage of fixed recoverable costs in non-personal injury work, asks Kerry...
24 May 2016
Panama Papers: Is client confidentiality sometimes worth breaking?
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Panama Papers: Is client confidentiality sometimes worth breaking?

Kerry Underwood considers that SRA guidance does not go far enough in preventing criminal activity
26 Apr 2016
QOCS gets the John Grisham treatment
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QOCS gets the John Grisham treatment

Personal injury practitioners should read and use Kerry Underwood's book on QOCS, or they may well lose out, advises Gordon Exall
14 Apr 2016
Austerity ain't working
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Austerity ain't working

Kerry Underwood: The real agenda is to stop ordinary people enforcing their rights
15 Mar 2016
Osborne confirms he finds rule of law unnecessary
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Osborne confirms he finds rule of law unnecessary

Kerry Underwood: I am back. Solicitors Journal and I have got back together more times than Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. This first piece on...
22 Jan 2016
Back of the net
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Back of the net

Real lawyers and traditional values count for something, decides Kerry Underwood, as he shares in the victory of his local football club
7 May 2014
Paving the way to totalitarianism
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Paving the way to totalitarianism

When will the state stop interfering and restricting lawyers' power to help the everyday man, asks Kerry Underwood
8 Apr 2014
Specialism is the order of the day
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Specialism is the order of the day

Meeting the everyday needs of firms as president of a local law society is paramount, says Paul Dyson
11 Mar 2014
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