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Litigation Superforecasting Hub

Read our thought leadership on applying Philip Tetlock’s superforecasting techniques to litigation predictions.
December 7, 2016
Beyond Grey Hair and Gut Instincts: Using Decision Trees to Supplement Analysis in Litigation

Balance Legal Capital’s Simon Burnett wrote a piece for International Corporate Rescue last month. The article discusses the use of decision trees in litigation analysis.

December 1, 2016
The King of Litigation

Flattering account of the Balance Legal Capital event at the House of Lords last night by Edward Fennell in The Times this morning (1 December 2016).

September 29, 2016
A dormant advantage of arbitration emerges: arbitrators have the power to order a losing party to pay claimant’s third party litigation funding costs

The recent case of Essar v Norscot has clarified that an arbitrator’s general power to award costs includes the power to award the costs of third party funding. In so doing, has arbitration gained an unexpected advantage over litigation for claimants that require third party funding?

July 24, 2016
Litigation Superforecasting, Part 3: A Way of Thinking

In this part 3 of our series on "Litigation Superforecasting", we discuss the habits of thought honed by Tetlock's superforecasters, and apply them to litigation and arbitration.

July 1, 2016
Simon Burnett featured in Australasian Lawyer

The Australasian Lawyer have written a feature on Balance Legal Capital's Simon Burnett.

May 17, 2016
Litigation Superforecasting, Part 2: Hedgehogs and Foxes

This is the second part of a three-part series from Balance Legal Capital on “Litigation Superforecasting”, inspired by a recent book called “Superforecasting – The Art & Science of Prediction” by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner.

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