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Jan
20
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 ...
24
Jan
20
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.
21
Jan
20
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 ...
21
Jan
20
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 ...
20
Jan
20
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 ...
07
Jan
20
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 ...
20
Dec
19
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 ...
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Dec
19
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? ...
10
Dec
19
Katie Ayres has been elected to the Administrative Law Bar Association Committee
We are delighted to announce that Katie Ayres has been elected to the Administrative Law Bar Association Committee. ALBA is the professional association for barristers in England and Wales ...
10
Dec
19
Property, Chancery and Commercial Briefing – December 2019
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.
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