If, like me, you spent 7 hours on a train without air conditioning on the hottest day of the year (see, “Travel Chaos” across all media), you will have had ample time to skim the decision (if properly so-called) of the Supreme Court in X v Kuoni [2019] UKSC 37 (published 24 July 2019). If you have not yet been able to catch up, then I can save you the trouble: “we don’t know the answer, we had better ask the CJEU.” We may return to this case law in later editions or we may, like the Supremes, wait for the CJEU to tell us the answer.
This Newsletter takes us back to that perennial favourite: the local safety standards defence. I recall that, some years ago, Alan Saggerson (late of this Parish) wrote an article on the same topic (following his successful defence at Trial of a number of slipping-in-bathroom cases). The Saggerson article was entitled, “A Slip in the Shower can be Quite Continental, but Grab Rails are a Girl’s Best Friend.” I hope that you enjoy Ella Davis’ case note (below) and, if you are heading away this Summer, may all your journeys be on spacious, air-conditioned, well-staffed and on time trains and planes …
The report of the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (“grooming gangs”) was published on 16th June. The Government confirmed the same day that action would be taken on each of the Audit’s 12 recommendations through introduction of legislation, police operations to…
This week Sarah Prager KC joins forces with Rebecca Huxford of Stewarts to bring news of a jurisdictional challenge in which (perhaps somewhat unusually) practical and logistical factors were placed front and centre. Practical and Logistical Factors in Challenges to Jurisdiction The High Court of…
On 21 May 2025, Mrs Justice Theis handed down a series of judgments, decided over several months from July 2024 to May 2025, in care proceedings concerning siblings who were the subject of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated by their parents. One parent was a…
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