Category: Property, Chancery & Commercial
09
Feb
17
Professional Negligence Briefing – Protecting buyers from identity fraud
Who bears the loss if you buy property but then find out that you have dealt with a fraudster? In three recent cases the courts have found that the seller’s solicitor, the ...

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14
Jan
17
Late service of the claim form: a bright side to the judicial approach?
Background In the recent case of Brightside Group Ltd v RSM UK Audit LLP [2017] EWHC 6 (Comm), the High Court ...

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12
Jan
17
Football and historic sexual abuse: the approach to quantum
The news has been bleak and unrelenting: the scandal of historic child sexual abuse continues to fill the headlines. It seems as if no sector of society has been unaffected by this blight, but the ...

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12
Jan
17
Property Damage Briefing – Article 1 – Japanese knottweed (Nuisance)
Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) was introduced into the UK from Japan in the 19th century as an ornamental plant, but has proved to be anything but an ornament in its ...

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12
Jan
17
Property Damage Briefing – Article 2 – The common enemy rule
The name of the rule comes from the case of R v The Commissioners of Sewers for the Levels of Pagham (1828) 8 B & C 355.

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28
Nov
16
Adjudication Again
Having recently done a case about an adjudicator’s jurisdiction, I noticed that in UNIVERSAL PILING & CONSTRUCTION LTD v VG CLEMENTS LTD a declaration was sought such whereby an adjudicator ...

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13
May
16
Friends become Enemies aka The Dangers of Free Advice
 

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06
May
16
Property fraud – liability of seller’s solicitor to innocent buyer
Purrunsing v A’Court & Co and House Owners Conveyancers [2016] EWHC 789 (Ch) is the latest case ...

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15
Mar
16
Crystal ball gazing: how does a judge assess loss of chance?

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24
Feb
16
A predictable revolution: Knauer v Ministry of Defence in the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has today handed down its judgment [2016] UKSC 9 in the 'leapfrog' appeal to it from the decision of Bean J in Knauer v Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 2553 (QB). Bean ...

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