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Feb

Persuading a Judge to strike the claim out (1)

By Francesca O'Neill This article should act as a warning to Claimants - miss out, or mess up, a procedural step - and your whole claim may be liable to be struck out. Although ...

Jan

Ransom Bitcoin – Further Guidance from the Commercial Court

In AA v Persons Unknown [2019] EWHC 3556 (comm) Mr Justice Bryan gave further ...

Jan

The imprecision of evidence 17 years after the events (Sanderson v Guy’s and Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust)

Personal injury analysis: issues relating to memory and witness evidence continue to trouble the courts. The problems are particularly acute when witnesses are giving evidence many years after ...

Jan

Reconstructing the Past – Memory, belief or a bit of both?

In 1973, reflecting on "scattered pictures" and "misty water-coloured memories", Barbra Streisand asked "Can it be that it was all so simple then"? The answer from Mrs.

Jan

TATLA Newsletter – January 2020

‘Where a cup of hot coffee, which is placed on the tray table of the seat in front of a person in an aircraft in flight, for unknown reasons slides and tips over, causing a passenger to suffer ...

Jan

Seeking fundamental dishonesty on appeal: a claimant whose evidence was “perforated with inconsistency” and “exaggerated” should have been found fundamentally dishonest

Following the decisions of Molodi v Cambridge [2018] and Richards & Anor v Morris [2018], it is commonplace for defendants to seek findings of fundamental dishonesty in ...

Jan

Permission to appeal granted in secondary victim clinical negligence claim: Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

On 14 January 2020 Stewart J granted the Claimants permission to appeal against the decision of Master Cook dated 4 November 2019 striking out their secondary victim claims. The claims arose from ...

Jan

Judgment: Metcalf v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust – causation where Bolitho meets Montgomery

On 19 December 2019 judgment was entered in the High Court for the Defendant in Metcalf v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWHC 3549 (QB). The case arose out of the ...

Dec

Chambers News

Chambers Christmas Opening Hours

We have reduced opening hours over the Christmas period. Monday 23rd December: 8.30am - 1.00pm Tuesday 24th December: Closed Wednesday 25th December: Closed Thursday 26th December: Closed ...

Dec

Public Authority Briefing December 2019

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? ...

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