Category: Articles
09
May
18
Kimathi v Foreign & Commonwealth Office [2018] EWHC 1070 (QB)
Queen's Bench Division, 09 May 2018 Interlocutory judgment on the application of parliamentary privilege in the ongoing Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation. Simon P G Murray acts for the ...

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04
May
18
Sumner v Colborne
Court of Appeal - 4th May 2018 A landowner does not owe a duty of care to ensure that vegetation contained on his land does not interfere with sight lines on the highway. The Court of Appeal ...

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03
May
18
When is a supplier not a supplier? The Court of Appeal decision in X v Kuoni (2018)
In X v Kuoni Travel Limited (2018) EWCA Civ 938 the Court of Appeal concluded that, for the purposes of Regulation 15 of the Package (Travel etc) Regulations 1992, the employees of ...

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21
Mar
18
Elite sport and Stress at work. By Simon Trigger and Tim Ransley
A few years back I pursued a claim on behalf of a lovely lady who was on the receiving end of the most consistent bullying I have seen.  Her male dominated employer had allowed the bullying to go on ...

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09
Mar
18
Admitting primary liability, subject to causation
On 23 February 2018, in Worrall v Thomas Cook, DJ Hassall determined the meaning of an admission in a holiday illness case. The Claimant sent a Letter of Claim alleging (among other matters) that the ...

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23
Feb
18
“May” I serve by email? Did the Supreme Court get Barton wrong?
We have had two cases this week from the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court giving different answers to the question of whether service by email was effective. The Court of Appeal’s reasoning on ...

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08
Feb
18
Enforcement of Adjudication Awards in Relation to Oral Construction Contracts. How Hard Can It Be?
Maurice Rifat comments on his recent success in the TCC in the case of Dacy Building Services Ltd v IDM Properties LLP ...

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08
Jan
18
Kimathi v Foreign Commonwealth Office Queen’s Bench Division, [2017] EWHC 3379 (QB)
On 20 December Stewart J handed down a significant judgment on Parliamentary privilege in the on-going Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation: claims arising out of the “Mau Mau” insurgency between ...

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18
Dec
17
Hughes Holland v BPE Solicitors [2017] UKSC 21
This was an appeal concerning the correct approach to damages where a client incurred loss in a transaction that, but for his advisor’s negligence he would not have entered into, but as a result of ...

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29
Nov
17
Legg & Ors v. Aviva [2016] EWCA Civ 97
The Court of Appeal has today handed down a judgment in the case of Legg & Ors v. Aviva [2016] EWCA Civ 97. The case concerned the scope and application of the rule relating to a party’s ability ...

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