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Nov

Webinar Recording: The Illegality Defence in the light of Stoffel v Grondona and Henderson v Dorset Healthcare

On 30 October Andrew Warnock QC and Maurice Rifat were successful in the Supreme Court in the case of Stoffel & Co v Grondona [2020] UKSC 42 which concerned the impact of the ...

Nov

Inquests Briefing – November 2020

There have been a number of recent developments of interest to those who practice in the coroners’ courts. As a result the 1 Chancery Lane Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence groups have joined ...

Nov

Property, Chancery and Commercial Group – Autumn Casenote Bulletin

Welcome to 1 Chancery Lane’s Autumn Casenote Bulletin. In this edition: Henk Soede explores how the Supreme Court interpreted section 84 of the Law of Property Act 1925 on the first ...

Nov

Restrictive Covenants – Supreme Court’s First Consideration of s.84 of the Law of Property Act 1925: Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd [2020] UKSC 45

Introduction In Alexander Devine Children’s Cancer Trust v Housing Solutions Ltd [2020] UKSC 45, the Supreme Court was required (for the first time ever) to decide an ...

Nov

Well, that’s a relief

When a landlord forfeits a lease of commercial premises for non-payment of rent and does so by peaceable re-entry the tenant can seek relief from the forfeiture by applying either to the County Court ...

Nov

The Court Of Appeal Goes Back To Basics – “Subject To Contract” Negotiations: Joanne Properties Ltd v Moneything Capital Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 1541

The issue for the Court of Appeal was whether the parties had entered into a binding contract of compromise contained in written communications passing between their respective solicitors. ...

Nov

Service Charge certificates

In Sara and Hossein Asset Holdings Ltd v Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd [2020] EWCA Civ 1521, the Court of Appeal considered the question of what was encompassed by a certificate as to the total ...

Nov

Fire Safety Improvements and Rationality: R(Clarke) v Birmingham City Council [2020] EWCA Civ 1466

Last week the Grenfell Inquiry heard shocking evidence of the dishonest marketing used to promote the ...

Nov

Medical Law Briefing – November 2020

Undoubtedly, 2020 has been a year where parties will have faced difficulty in progressing claims owing to the lockdown / semi lockdown state of flux we have found ourselves in. Parties will want to ...

Nov

Heading the ball – Part of the game or an industrial disease.

The diagnosis at the beginning of November 2020 of Sir Bobby Charlton with dementia follows on from four other members of the 1966 World Cup starting 11 also being diagnosed with the same disease.

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