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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 Recast Brussels Regulation apply to claims made wholly or partly…
Aqeel acted for TB, a homeless man, who was accused of causing two serious head wounds to a 60 year-old man after trespassing on his property. The complainant’s head wound was subsequently infected with necrotising fasciitis, a flesh eating bacteria, leaving the…
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 Milan Linate airport in Italy. He alleged…
The Claimant was a Prison Officer at HMP Winchester, who responded to an alarm call which concerned two fighting prisoners. The prisoners were separated and the Claimant held one of them on the ground, whilst the other prisoner backed off along the…
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 (if properly so-called) of the Supreme…
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 proportionality introduced on 1 April 2013 by…
Tom Little QC successfully prosecuted William Kydd for the murder of a vulnerable woman in her 70s. He attacked the victim in her own home and then set fire to the property in order to kill her and to cover up the…
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 applicant Chief Constable the Court determined…
In NHS Commissioning Board v (1) Dr Manjul Vasant (2) Dr Angelica Khera (3) Dr Gursharan Kalsi [2019] EWCA Civ 1245, the issue on appeal was whether NHS England was entitled to terminate contractual arrangements under which three dentists supplied an Intermediate…
Jennie Oborne has been appointed to the Attorney General’s C Panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown for a period of five years from the 2nd September 2019. Jennie is still available for instructions in her core areas of crime, police law,…