The Supreme Court today allowed the Prosecution’s Interlocutory Appeal in R v Mackinlay and others as to way in which election expenses are to be calculated and declared. Tom Little QC is prosecuting the case in the Southwark Crown Court and appeared in the Supreme Court along with Tim Straker QC and John McGuinness QC. The judgment reverses that of the Court of Appeal. As this is an ongoing Prosecution there are reporting restrictions limiting what can be reported at this stage.
In this week’s dekagram Dominique Smith examines the all-important topic of Part 36 offers, and the knotty question of whether and how they can be withdrawn, whilst Russell Wilcox considers what currency costs orders should be made in. When can a Part 36 Offer be…
In this week’s Dekagram Kerry Nicholson considers whether there’s any way around a failure to serve an N510 form on time when issuing a claim, and Robbie Parkin examines a quite extraordinary case which looks set to rumble on through the courts for years to…
Accommodation costs are among the most difficult heads of loss for clinical negligence practitioners. In this Dekinar, David Thomson and Anirudh Mandagere consider how to build accommodation claims in clinical negligence cases from the perspective of the approach and aims of both claimants and defendants,…
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