Category: Articles
18
Sep
18
The ‘Illegality’ Defence rears its ugly head again.
Maurice Rifat comments on his success in the recently handed down decision of the Court of Appeal. ...

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27
Jun
18
£multi-million personal injury claim dismissed by Foskett J
Pauline Carter v Kingswood Learning and Leisure Group Limited [2018] EWHC 1616 (QB) Angus Piper of 1 ...

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25
May
18
Kimathi & Others v Foreign & Commonwealth Office [2018] EWHC 1305 (QB)
The High Court has firmly rejected the contention, advanced in the ongoing Kenyan Emergency Group Litigation, that fear without more is capable of being an injury so as to bring a claim within the ...

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15
May
18
Court of Appeal decision on Imposter Fraud
The Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in the long-awaited conjoined appeals of P & P Property Ltd v Owen White & Catlin LLP and Dreamvar (UK) Ltd v Mishcon de ...

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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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