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The Court of Appeal handed down judgment today in the eagerly anticipated appeal in Edwards v London Borough of Sutton (2016). The claim concerned the duty owed by occupiers for structures present on their land. The Claimant was pushing a…
Helen Pooley looks at the High Court decision in R (on the application of Secretary of State for Transport) (Claimant) v HM Senior Coroner for Norfolk (Defendant) & British Airline Pilots Association (Intervener) [2016] EWHC 2279 (Admin).
The Air Accident Investigation…
MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd v Rock Advertising Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 553
Anti-oral variation clauses.
Background
Rock Advertising occupied premises managed by the Respondent MWB. This agreement had operated for a number of years and originally related to…
Radicalisation and state intervention
The fact finding judgment of Mr Justice Newton, A local Authority v M, F and C, D, E, and F, in which I represent the four children was recently reported at [2016]EWHC 1599.
This is the…
Twelve members of the 9 Gough Chambers Family team are speaking at the next LBLA Children Law Conference on 6th October from 09:30 to 16:00.
Tim Parker will chair and speak at the conference, followed by:
Tara Vindis and Laura Bumpus…
Edward Lamb, Head of our rapidly expanding Court of Protection Team, has been booked to talk at the forthcoming MBL Annual Court of Protection Conference on 2nd December 2016 in London.
Edward will be discussing key developments in determining best interests…
We are delighted to announce that 9 Gough Chambers has been shortlisted for Client Service Set of the Year at the 2016 Chambers UK Bar Awards.
Full nominations can be viewed
On 26th July 2016, Mr Justice Edis handed down judgment in Leeds City Council v Broadley [2016] EWHC 1839 (Admin), which considered whether a tenancy agreement could create a single tenancy with an initial fixed period which later becomes a periodic lease,…
Both civil and family practitioners should take note of the Civil Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2016 (SI 2016/788), which come into effect on Monday 3rd October 2016. Their major effect is to substitute an entire new Part 52 (“Appeals”) – although…
Andrew Ritchie QC settled a case for a 65 year old man who suffered a clinical negligence event at Medway Hospital in 2011 which made him tetraplegic. He was unable to move his legs and unable to feel them, doubly incontinent and…
