The High Court has firmly rejected the contention, advanced in the ongoing Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation, that fear without more is capable of being an injury so as to bring a claim within the ambit of the discretionary disapplication of the time bar provisions contained in sections 11 and 33 of the Limitation Act 1980. Simon Murray is part of the counsel team...
Read moreThe Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in the long-awaited conjoined appeals of P & P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP and Dreamvar (UK) Ltd v Mishcon de Reya. It is not good news for conveyancing solicitors and their insurers.
Each case involved a fraudulent property transaction carried out by an imposter who had stolen the identity of...
Read moreInterlocutory judgment on the application of parliamentary privilege in the ongoing Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation. Simon P G Murray acts for the Foreign Office.
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2018/1070.html
... Read moreChambers are please to confirm the appointment of Laura Johnson and Saleem Khalid to the Independent Appeal Panel for the Lambeth Childrens Home Redress Scheme
Read moreCourt of Appeal - 4th May 2018
A landowner does not owe a duty of care to ensure that vegetation contained on his land does not interfere with sight lines on the highway. The Court of Appeal so held in the above case, when upholding the decision of HHJ Pearce to strike out a claim brought by a motorist against two highway authorities, one of which owned the land...
Read moreChambers is delighted to announce that 1 Chancery Lane has been shortlisted for Barristers' Chambers of the Year, at The British Claims Awards 2018.
The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday 7th June 2018.
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Update, the above appeal has now been brought forward by 1 day and directed into the lists for hearing on the 16th and 17th July 2018 by Lady Hale. The panel has given a time estimate of 1.5 days.
Read moreThe above appeal has been expedited and directed into the lists for hearing on the 17th and 18th July 2018 by Lady Hale. The panel has given a time estimate of 1.5 days.
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