2017 - 1 Chancery Lane

Year: 2017

Dec

CN v Poole Borough Council – Briefing Note on the Decision of the Court of Appeal

CN v Poole Borough Council Briefing Note on the Decision of ...

Dec

A point of principle: the Supreme Court clarifies the “but for” test

Tiuta International Limited (in liquidation) (Respondent) v De Villiers Surveyors Limited (Appellant) [2017] UKSC 77 In a tightly drawn 15 paragraph judgment, delivered last ...

Dec

Construction Negligence: an overview of 2017

The end of the year lends itself to a time of reflection, and similarly to case-law reviews. As I pick which professional – from social workers to solicitors – to focus upon, I return to that ...

Dec

Hughes Holland v BPE Solicitors [2017] UKSC 21

This was an appeal concerning the correct approach to damages where a client incurred loss in a transaction that, but for his advisor’s negligence he would not have entered into, but as a result of ...

Dec

Professional Liability Update – Hughes Holland v BPE Solicitors

This was an appeal concerning the correct approach to damages where a client incurred loss in a transaction that, but for his advisor’s negligence he would not have entered ...

Dec

Professional Liability Update – The ‘but for’ test

In a tightly drawn 15 paragraph judgment, delivered last week, Lord Sumption overturned the decision of Moore Bick LJ in the Court of Appeal, and restored the first instance ...

Dec

TATLA Briefing – December 2017

For this final Newsletter of the year we return to private international law and the issue of jurisdiction. Powerful obiter from the Court of Appeal suggests that the use of ...

Dec

Chambers News

Chancery Master: Appointment – Karen Shuman

We are delighted to announce that The Queen has appointed Karen Shuman to be a Master of the Chancery Division on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable David Lidington MP and the ...

Nov

Travel & Cross Border Claims

Lady Brownlie v Four Seasons Holdings Inc [2015] EWCA Civ 665; [2015] PIQR P2; [2015] CP Rep 40

The Defendant, Four Seasons Holdings Inc., has been given leave to appeal by the Supreme Court. The Claimant, Lady Brownlie, will be seeking permission to cross-appeal in relation to her claim, and ...

Nov

Public Authority Liability

Misfeasance claim against highways officer dismissed: Perma-Soil UK Ltd v Williams and Flintshire CC

HHJ Keyser QC, sitting in the Mercantile Court in Wales, handed down a judgment today dismissing a claim for misfeasance in public office against Mr Keith Williams, a senior street works engineer, and ...

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