In this inaugural briefing for our Public Law Group, Saleem Khalid and Richard Collier take a detailed
look at some of the key cases of the last twelve months affecting public authority liability. The
Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of CN v Poole is (surely!) due shortly, whilst permission to appeal
to the Supreme Court has recently been granted in the leading vicarious liability case of Barclays Bank.
In this briefing we focus upon a number of recent cases where it has been argued that the law on duties
owed has been expanded through the law of negligence, or the Human Rights Act, to see where the law
stands as of Spring 2019.
Once again this week we find ourselves in the position of thanking our readers for their kind words about us to the directories. In the recently published edition of the Legal 500 members of the team are listed in Aviation and Travel and in Personal…
We will be exhibiting at this year’s Bar Council Pupillage Fair, taking place on Saturday, 19th October at Convene 133 Houndsditch, Liverpool Street, London. We offer two 12 month pupillages each year, with pupils gaining experience across all our areas of civil, criminal and family…
On 11 September 2022, Terence Gillard was crossing the Great West Road in Hounslow in West London when he was struck by an oncoming vehicle. He was taken to hospital and died of his injuries one week later. Although the location of his death is…
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