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Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Anniversary Edition

This week marks the first anniversary of the Weekly Roundup. It’s hard to believe that it was a year ago that we at 1CL decided to bring a little sunshine to our readers’ drab lives, like a Legal ...

Mar

No ‘unforeseeable event’ defence for deliberate acts of hotel employees: CJEU gives judgment in X v Kuoni

The European Court of Justice (CJEU) handed down its much anticipated judgment in X v Kuoni Travel Ltd (Case C-578-19) this morning. As expected, the CJEU concurred with the opinion of ...

Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Handy Hints Edition

This week we thought we’d gather together a few thoughts on travel claims generally, from clinical negligence claims arising from treatment abroad, to holiday sickness claims, to the issues around ...

Mar

Special Briefing: the Decision of the Court of Appeal in Begum v Maran [2021] 3 WLUK 162

In Begum v Maran [2021] 3 WLUK 162 the Court of Appeal was asked to reconsider the decision of Jay J in Begum v Maran [2020] EWHC 1846 (QB), which was the subject of a 1CL Special ...

Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Apocalypse Edition

After last week’s warmer, sunnier weather, the team were dismayed to be confronted, this week, by freezing temperatures. No sooner had we clocked this, than Cockerill J was asked to turn her mind to ...

Mar

The Weekly Roundup: the Springwatch Edition

The team’s spirits have soared this week; not only have we been able to book a garden table at our favourite restaurant for 13th April, it looks as if we might not need to take the 1CL ...

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 ...

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