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What do you have to do to ensure that Parts 43 to 48 of the existing rules continue to apply to CFAs entered into before 1st April 2013? Do advocacy or litigation services have to be provided before 1st April 2013 or not?   For the existing rules to continue to apply to CFAs entered

I have a rather boring relationship with my accountant,  I tell him how much money has come in and he tells me how much I have to give to the nice men at the Revenue; not for me the complex off-shore trust or some other interesting tax minimisation vehicle.  As such I’ve never received (or

The conclusion of a recent Study undertaken by Robert Hunter, heads of trusts litigation at Herbert Smith and Dr Claire Royston, a consultant psychiatrist and medical director of Four Seasons Health Care, should serve as a stark warning for practitioners in this area. Its conclusion has been that it has found solicitors lacking when making

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee has published CPR amendments due to come into force on 1st April 2013. Some of the key provisions for PI practitioners are as follows:- Amendment to the Overriding Objective The overriding objective will become not just “to deal with cases justly” but also “at proportionate cost”; and the definition of

See my earlier post, 13.12.12, on Nationwide v Davisons [2012] EWCA Civ 1626. The Court of Appeal judgment  in AIB Group (UK) Plc v Mark Redler & Co [2013] EWCA Civ 45 was handed down on 8 February 2013. The court has again taken the opportunity to place a brake on breach of trust arguments

    Bloy & Ireson v MIB [2013] LTL (QB, Manchester DR). This case arose out of a road traffic accident in Lithuania in which the Claimants (the First Claimant, a child, in particular) suffered very serious injuries. The Claimants were UK nationals domiciled in England. The tortfeasor, a Lithuanian national domiciled in Lithuania, was

    It’s one of the oldest chestnuts in private international law and has been brought into sharper focus by the Rome II Regulation on applicable law in tort. Assume that the English Claimant is catastrophically injured in a road traffic accident in France. The Claimant sues the tortfeasor’s French insurer in the English Courts

Non-compliance by claimants with their disclosure obligations under the Professional Negligence Pre-Action Protocol can prove an expensive mistake.  Webb Resolutions Ltd v Waller Needham & Green [2012] EWHC 3529 (Ch) shows why.   The Claimant, a purchaser of mortgage loans from institutional lenders – c.f. the preceding post – wished to sue the Defendant solicitors

  The defendant insurers in the case of Rasoul v Linkevicius (5th October 2012, Unreported), successfully obtained a wasted costs order against claimant solicitors in an RTA claim. The case is a warning to claimant solicitors in RTA claims where there is an allegation of fraud and parties/witnesses who do not speak English. For defendants

Judgments which contain a review of the authorities are always useful to the busy practitioner.  One such is that of Coulson J. in Webb Resolutions Ltd v. E. Surv Ltd [2012] EWHC 3653 (TCC), where he discusses the law relating to surveyors’ negligence in making mortgage valuations.    The judgment also contains one or two discrete