Category: Articles
06
Dec
21
The Weekly Roundup: the Value Added Edition
Can a Claimant be forced to sue parties (s)he has no desire to bring into proceedings? A strange question, perhaps, but one that troubled the Court of Appeal in Pawley v Whitecross Dental Care ...

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01
Dec
21
On the application of Res Judicata (or disarming the ‘’Italian Torpedo’’)
1. All travel litigation practitioners will be familiar with the concept of the ‘Italian Torpedo’, but for those amongst us lucky enough never to have seen one approaching on their radar, a brief ...

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29
Nov
21
The Weekly Roundup: the Caring Edition
In a week dominated, for the team at 1CL at least, by excitement over the sudden appearance of snow (in Winter! Fancy!), it’s been nice to see a brace of High Court judges showing their caring side.

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22
Nov
21
The Weekly Roundup: the Alliterative Edition
Busy practitioners will be delighted to hear that the courts have issued fresh guidance on the compilation of e-bundles, to be found here:

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19
Nov
21
Applicable law in Montreal Convention cases: the Decision in Silverman v Ryanair DAC [2021] EWHC 2955 (QB)
Claims arising out of carriage of passengers by air are (very largely) governed by the Montreal Convention, in force in the UK in its modified form by operation of Regulation (EU) No.889/2002, which ...

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18
Nov
21
Francesca O’Neill successfully obtains Extended Civil Restraint Order in the High Court following strike out
Francesca O’Neill successfully obtained an Extended Civil Restraint Order against a Mr AKM Soeb in respect of his serial litigation against the Home Office. Mr Soeb has brought three claims against ...

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15
Nov
21
The Weekly Roundup: the International Competition Edition
It’s been an exciting week of sport, what with the T20 World Cup and the Autumn Internationals, and probably a bit of football too (there’s always football). But we at 1CL have been distracted ...

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12
Nov
21
The New Normal: The Post-Brexit Landscape
Now that the dust has settled following the end of the transition period and Exit Day on 31st December 2020, it is a timely moment for insurers and their representatives to consider the post-Brexit ...

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10
Nov
21
Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50 – a £3 billion saving for Google.
“… I conclude that section 13 of the DPA 1998 cannot reasonably be interpreted as conferring on a data subject a right to compensation for any (non-trivial) contravention by a data controller ...

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08
Nov
21
‘Failure to Remove’ Claims in the High Court: the Appeals in HXA v Surrey County Council and YXA v Wolverhampton City Council
The trickle of court decisions seeking to apply the decision of the Supreme Court in N v Poole BC [2019] UKSC 25, [2020] AC 780 continues.  On November 8th 2021, Stacey J

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