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Latest News & Events
Re F (Children: Placement Orders: Proportionality) [2026] EWCA Civ 990 – A reminder of the need to properly analyse the ‘nothing else will do’ test
Lucy Lodewyke writes about this recent appeal handed down on 29 July 2026, in which the Court of Appeal allowed a mother’s appeal against care and placement orders made in respect of her two young daughters and set aside those orders as neither necessary nor…
Mustafa (A Child) [2026] EWHC 2159 (Fam): A Robust Approach following “AGNI”
Following Madeleine Miller’s July Dekagram on A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 [2026] UKSC 16, [2026] 2 WLR 1087 (“AGNI”), comes the first significant application of…
The Dekagram: 1st September 2026
This week Megan Bithel-Vaughan considers the circumstances in which a costs budget may not be varied, whilst Imogen Todd takes us back to the 80s, a Golden Age of litigation, when parties ambushed each other at trial and judges behaved even more splenetically than they…
The Intersection between Public Liability and Human Rights – Conference in London on 6 October
We are hosting a half day conference in London: The Intersection between Public Liability and Human Rights. The conference is taking place at etc.venues Chancery Lane, 50-52 Chancery Lane London, London WC2A 1HL. Registration starts at 13:15 and the conference starts at 13:30 – 17:30. We will…
Personal Injury Claims on behalf of Children Conference in Sheffield – 16 September 2026
We are hosting a half day conference in Sheffield on Personal Injury Claims on behalf of Children. The conference is taking place at Millennium Gallery, 48 Arundel Gate, Sheffield City Centre, Sheffield S1 2PP. Registration starts at 13:15 and the conference starts at 13:30 –…
When a Fundamental Dishonesty Allegation Goes Wrong
APIL is running a campaign to stop abuse of the rules on fundamental dishonesty by some defendants. Ben Rodgers has a recent tale from the coalface. Tom was a ground worker. In 2018, he was driving his employer’s flatbed van when the Defendant’s van drove…
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