T3PS Legal Dynamics · Series 4: Practical AI for Legal Operations · Fact-verified June 2026 Every costs consultant/costs lawyer knows the file that arrives like an archaeological dig. The matter settled six months ago. The partner who ran it has moved on. The time narratives read “review file” and “consider documents,” the attendances do not obviously match the procedural events, and somewhere in there is a counsel fee note nobody can quite account for. The job is no longer t
On 10 July 2026 the High Court handed down judgment following the liability issues trial in the Pan-NOx Emissions Group Litigation — the largest group action in English legal history. Around 1.6 million claimants, proceeding under Group Litigation Orders, alleged that diesel vehicles made by the lead defendant manufacturers — Mercedes-Benz among them, alongside Ford, Renault-Nissan and Peugeot-Citroën — contained prohibited defeat devices: software that kept NOx emissions low