Shutterstock The market for commercial litigation funding has exploded in the United States. Following years of successful funding relationships among law firms, litigants and claimants in more mature funding markets overseas, the U.S. legal market has seen professional litigation funders either import their methods, measures and access to capital to a budding market or otherwise create successful litigation funding shops based here in the United States. Proponents of litigation funding are legion; they laud the investment of capital in the legal market, the increased access to justice and the resolution of disputes based on the merits of the case instead […]

Margaret, Duchess of Argyll caused a scandal in the Sixties (Image: Chris Barham/Daily Mail /Rex) The proceedings ignited huge interest from a prurient public, with rumours of two government ministers, a member of the Royal Family and a Hollywood star being among the 88 men that the lively aristocrat was accused by her husband of entertaining, some at Inveraray Castle, the Argyll family seat in western Scotland. The marriage had fallen apart after the suspicious duke hired a locksmith to break open a cupboard at the house his wife owned in London’s Mayfair. The search uncovered not only an impressive […]

Princess Diana never wanted to give up on her marriage to Prince Charles, not even after Charles publicly admitted to his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles. Here’s what finally changed her mind-or, should we say, “who.” When Lady Diana Spencer married the Prince of Wales in a fairytale wedding in the summer of 1981, she had reason to believe he still carried a torch for his former flame, Camilla Parker-Bowles. But Diana married him anyway, hoping for a fairytale ending. Instead, that ending was a rubber stamp on a set of divorce papers in 1996. But the truth is, divorce is […]