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In this end of year article, Andrew Warnock QC asks the question many involved with the public sector have been asking since Poole v GN – when does an Assumption of Responsibility arise?
Whilst the Supreme Court did not give the clearest…
We are delighted to announce that Katie Ayres has been elected to the
This edition’s contributors are all new members of Chambers who are writing for us for the first time. Their contributions reflect the breadth of our expertise at 1 Chancery Lane.
Richard Collier, has written about the restrictions on landlords serving section 21…
We end the year on a jurisdictional theme: a case-note on the Court of Appeal’s decision in the recent Lugano Convention case of JSC Commercial Bank v Kolomoisky & Anor. [2019] EWCA Civ 1708.
This decision (which has obvious potential relevance to…
We are pleased to announce that after extensive research Edward Faulks QC has been shortlisted for the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Silk of the Year in The Legal 500 UK 2020 awards.
Winners will be announced in the next 10 days.
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Tom Little QC successfully prosecuted Michael Weir at the Old Bailey for 2 separate murders committed in 1998.
They were the murders of Leonard Harris and Rose Seferian. Michael Weir had originally been convicted in 1999 of the murder of Leonard Harris….
9 Gough Chambers is delighted to announce that HHJ Rajeev Shetty, a much admired former member of Chambers has been authorised to act as a Judge of the High Court. We wish him congratulations for his continued success.
In two recent decisions the Courts have again considered the tort gateway (see, CPR Part 6, PD, paragraph 3.1(9)(a)) in the context of a jurisdictional challenge by a Defendant domiciled outside the jurisdiction and outside the EU: Brownlie v Four Seasons Holdings…
Introduction
Where a claimant brings a “mixed” claim (i.e. they claim damages for personal injury and in the same proceedings also claim non-personal injury damages or other relief), does the court have the discretion to disapply QOCS? If so, how will…
