2019 - Page 2 of 8 - 1 Chancery Lane

Year: 2019

Sep

Costs Budgeting Update: CCMC costs ARE incurred

Although District Judges have been taking the view that the costs of the CCMC at which costs budgeting is taking place are incurred for the purpose of budgeting for future costs, this has now ...

Sep

The demise of Thomas Cook: where do travel claims stand?

We all woke up to the news that Thomas Cook had collapsed, entering into compulsory liquidation. Not only was this troubling news for holidaymakers due to go on holiday, and indeed those stranded ...

Sep

Judgment – Penelope Smith v The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

HHJ Berkley gave judgment for the Defendant this week in Winchester County Court in the claim of Penelope Smith v The Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Sep

Avoiding being negligent – How to understand and litigate pension loss claims

Paul Stagg, author of the Pension Loss chapter in Kemp & Kemp, will be speaking today at the PIBA Seminar on Avoiding ...

Sep

Chambers News

Andrew Warnock QC has been appointed a Recorder

1 Chancery Lane are delighted to announce that Andrew Warnock QC has been appointed a Recorder. He has been assigned to the Civil Sector on the Midland Circuit.

Aug

Direct actions against insurers in subrogated claims – the limits of the Recast Brussels Regulation

Jack Harding, barrister at 1 Chancery Lane, and Paul McClorry, Head of Travel Law at Hudgells solicitors, consider whether the special rules governing matters relating to insurance in section 3 of the ...

Aug

High Court judgment on the meaning of ‘Accident’ under the Montreal Convention

On 31st July 2019 the High Court handed down judgment in Labbadia v Alitalia (2019) EWHC 2103 (QB). The Claimant had slipped on snow or ice as he descended a set of aircraft steps at ...

Jul

TATLA Newsletter July 2019

If, like me, you spent 7 hours on a train without air conditioning on the hottest day of the year (see, “Travel Chaos” across all media), you will have had ample time to skim the decision ...

Jul

Proportionate Costs – important new guidance from the Court of Appeal

The notes at [44.3.3] of the 2019 Consolidated Edition of Civil Procedure (the White Book) (p.1390) read: “As yet no guidance has been provided by the Court of Appeal as to how the test of ...

Jul

McClelland v The Chief Constable of Sussex Police (Wasted Costs)

Last week HHJ Simpkiss sitting as a judge of the High Court gave judgment in the wasted costs proceedings in the case of McClelland v The Chief Constable of Sussex Police. Finding in favour of the ...

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