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Feb

Webinar Recording: Arrest Lawful or Unlawful, Nominal Damages and Disclosure – A Review of Recent Authorities

In yesterday's webinar, Ian Stebbings and Francesca O'Neill reviewed the authorities in Police Law regarding unlawful arrest and level of damages following both the Parker and Norman ...

Feb

Fundamental Dishonesty & Trials in Lockdown

Roger André joined 1 Chancery Lane in December 2020. He has a longstanding Civil Fraud Practice and his move to 1 Chancery Lane, whilst still residing in the North of England, enables him to offer ...

Feb

The Weekly Roundup: the Consumer Power Edition

Avid readers of the Civil Procedure Rules online will have been all of a doodah this week; we at 1CL sympathise. For this week the CPR were migrated from the legacy justice.gov.uk site, which is being ...

Feb

Hart v Large – Assessment of Damages in Negligent Surveyor Cases

This recent decision from the Court of Appeal will be of particular interest to surveyors ...

Feb

The Weekly Roundup: the Positions of Power Edition

This week brought another interesting development in gastric illness claims; an inventive attempt to fix a single joint expert with the Defendant’s costs of successfully defending a claim was ...

Feb

‘Failure to Remove’ Claims – the Decision in HXA v Surrey County Council, and an Update

It is over nineteen months since the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in N v Poole BC [2019] UKSC 25, [2020] AC 780 considering whether social services authorities and their ...

Feb

Webinar Recording – Fundamental Dishonesty in Clinical Negligence Proceedings

In their webinar yesterday, David Thomson and Ella Davis discussed fundamental dishonesty in clinical negligence claims. They considered: What fundamental dishonesty is Key ...

Feb

Date of assessment of loss in negligence

Last week’s case of Gosden v. Halliwell Landau [2021] EWHC 159 (Comm) is a useful reminder that there is no universal rule for ascertaining the date for assessment of damage in ...

Feb

The Weekly Roundup: the Procedural Edition

It never rains but it pours. No sooner had we got straight in our minds the slew of Brexit regulations enacted last year than a bunch of amendments to the Civil Procedure Rules landed on our desks.

Feb

What Corbyn Can Teach Commercial Litigators

At the end of a much-cited passage about witness’ memory Leggatt J. suggested that the best approach for a judge in a commercial case was, “to place little if any reliance at all on witnesses' ...

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