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Apr

Personal Injury Briefing – April 2020

This last week has been interesting for Personal Injury lawyers, not only because of the continuing effects of the Coronavirus public health emergency, but also because the Supreme Court has handed ...

Mar

Property, Chancery and Commercial Group Briefing – March 2020

In this edition: John Bryant analyses a recent decision on waiver of the right to forfeit which applies known principles to a demand of insurance rent; Chris Pask looks at the standard the court ...

Mar

Coronavirus and Inquests: Guidance from the Chief Coroner

Over the past few weeks, many of us have watched the news and have seen the impact of COVID-19 on our daily lives. Most of us now remain confined to our homes, waiting until it is deemed safe to ...

Mar

TATLA Newsletter March 2020

In this edition, I have mined the archives (topically, I hope) for some case notes dating back to 2004 when Sarah Prager and I did battle in an appeal arising out of the cancellation of a package ...

Mar

TATLA Newsletter – March 2020

In an effort to avoid the C-word and to provide some distraction in these troubled times, this Newsletter concentrates on two recent High Court decisions: Pandya v ...

Jan

Reconstructing the Past – Memory, belief or a bit of both?

In 1973, reflecting on "scattered pictures" and "misty water-coloured memories", Barbra Streisand asked "Can it be that it was all so simple then"? The answer from Mrs.

Jan

TATLA Newsletter – January 2020

'Where a cup of hot coffee, which is placed on the tray table of the seat in front of a person in an aircraft in flight, for unknown reasons slides and tips over, causing a passenger to suffer ...

Jan

Seeking fundamental dishonesty on appeal: a claimant whose evidence was “perforated with inconsistency” and “exaggerated” should have been found fundamentally dishonest

Following the decisions of Molodi v Cambridge [2018] and Richards & Anor v Morris [2018], it is commonplace for defendants to seek findings of fundamental dishonesty in ...

Jan

Metcalf v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust – causation where Bolitho meets Montgomery

On 19 December 2019 judgment was entered in the High Court for the Defendant in Metcalf v Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWHC 3549 (QB). The case arose out of the ...

Dec

Public Authority Briefing December 2019

In this end of year article, Andrew Warnock QC asks the question many involved with the public sector have been asking since Poole v GN - when does an Assumption of Responsibility arise? ...

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