Property, Chancery & Commercial Archives - 1 Chancery Lane

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Complex Personal Injury
Delivering ‘a consistently high-standard’ service, 1 Chancery Lane’s Personal Injury practice is closely linked to its extensive expertise across the public law spectrum. With one of the largest Personal Injury teams in the sector, offering both silks and juniors, areas of niche expertise include claims relating to child abuse, industrial disease, occupiers’ liability, product liability, public liability, road traffic, and sports incidents, as well as fraudulent claims and insurance-related work, inquests and public authority claims and inquiries.
Other services: Motor Fraud
Public Authority Claims & Inquiries
1 Chancery Lane acts for both claimants and defendants on a broad range of claims brought against local authorities, police forces and emergency services, education providers, care homes and housing associations. Members of chambers have particular expertise in human rights and other civil liberties matters; claims relating to care home regulation, child care proceedings and child abuse investigations; education-related matters; and the practice and processes of the Administrative Court and of advising public bodies as to the lawfulness of their actions.
Other services: Police Law
Travel & Cross Border Claims
Recognised as the pre-eminent travel set members of 1 Chancery Lane’s Travel Law team act for solicitors and their clients as well as directly for tour operators, airlines, cruise operators, trade associations, tourist boards, charities and insurers (home and overseas). Offering some of the leading silks and juniors in this field, members are adept at dealing with the full range of personal injury matters, including cases concerning catastrophic injury, fatalities, illness claims and group actions. The set is particularly known for its expertise in package travel claims and issues concerning liability, jurisdiction and applicable law.
Professional Liability
1 Chancery Lane is recognised for legal, insurance, financial services, real estate and construction professional negligence work, and is particularly noted for its ‘unique specialism’ in claims concerning local authorities and the education sector. Members act for both claimants and defendants in hard-fought cases concerning such allegations as breach of duty, misrepresentation and fraud.
Property, Chancery & Commercial
1 Chancery Lane has built on its strong reputation for Professional Negligence, Personal Injury, and Property Damage work to provide relevant and linked expertise across Property, Chancery & Commercial disciplines. Areas of particular specialism include real property, trusts & probate, landlord & tenant, property damage, property-related professional negligence, property-related and Landlord & Tenant Personal Injury claims, and all areas of commercial, financial and industrial contracts, including matters relating to fraud.
Medical Law
Reported as a ‘technically strong’ team, with ‘far-reaching expertise’ 1 Chancery Lane offers one of the largest, specialist medical law and clinical negligence teams in the sector. Acting on large, multi-party actions as well as individual cases, members of 1 Chancery Lane specialise in claims relating to organ retention, cervical screening, human growth hormone, cardiac surgery, HIV/haemophilia, fatal accidents and catastrophic injuries (particularly those involving the spine or birth trauma), mental illness, as well as those concerning consent and safeguarding, human rights, difficult causation and quantum issues, inquests, inquiries, GMC and GDC regulatory cases and other professional disciplinary tribunals.

Category: Property, Chancery & Commercial

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Feb

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Trecarrel House Limited v Rouncefield

This article was first published in Nearly Legal HHJ Carr in a reserved judgment handed down on 13 Feb 2019 allowed the ...

13

Feb

19

Circuit Judge Level Gas Safety Certificate

Richard Cherry has succeeded in the second Circuit Judge level Gas Safety Certificate Case before HHJ Carr in Truro County ...

13

Feb

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Wells v Devani [2019] UKSC 1106

In Wells v Devani [2019] UKSC 1106 the Supreme Court has ruled that it is possible to imply a term into an agreement to render it sufficiently certain to constitute a binding contract.

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Feb

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MBS v Grant Thornton – The Court of Appeal upholds decision on scope of recoverable damages in professional negligence cases

MANCHESTER BUILDING SOCIETY v GRANT THORNTON UK LLP (2019) [2019] EWCA Civ 40 This important decision of the Court of Appeal sets out valuable guidance on the application of the ...

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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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Aug

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“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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Jul

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Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd v S Williams & R Waistell

The Court of Appeal has confirmed that damages are recoverable in nuisance for the encroachment of Japanese Knotweed on the neighbouring land.

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May

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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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Mar

18

Property Law Briefing – Service by Email?

The Party Wall Act 1996 contains provisions that deal with service of documents by email (s.15(1A)-(1C)). The provisions are similar to the CPR in that they require the ...

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Feb

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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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