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In yesterday’s webinar, Laura Johnson and Susanna Bennett went back to basics on the law of capacity as it relates to personal injury claims with a focus on some of the knotty practical issues that commonly arise in practice, where there are…
Busy practitioners will be delighted to hear that the courts have issued fresh guidance on the compilation of e-bundles, to be found here: ‘Ryanair flew us to Greece instead of Spain – and now won’t say sorry’ (mirror.co.uk)’ – how? why? and…
Claims arising out of carriage of passengers by air are (very largely) governed by the Montreal Convention, in force in the UK in its modified form by operation of Regulation (EU) No.889/2002, which has survived Brexit by reason of s.3 of the…
Francesca O’Neill successfully obtained an Extended Civil Restraint Order against a Mr AKM Soeb in respect of his serial litigation against the Home Office. Mr Soeb has brought three claims against the Secretary of State for the Home Department since 2019, alleging…
This year’s 1 Chancery Lane Autumn Bumper Briefing takes as its theme – what else? – Covid-19 and its consequences. Some two years after the virus was first identified, and just over eighteen months since the first lockdown began, the courts are…
In yesterday’s webinar, Paul Stagg and Lisa Dobie explained the circumstances in which a claim may succeed on the basis of demonstrating a material contribution to an adverse outcome in the clinical negligence context.
They considered the concept’s relationship to the establishment…
It’s been an exciting week of sport, what with the T20 World Cup and the Autumn Internationals, and probably a bit of football too (there’s always football). But we at 1CL have been distracted from these events by a number of decisions…
Now that the dust has settled following the end of the transition period and Exit Day on 31st December 2020, it is a timely moment for insurers and their representatives to consider the post-Brexit landscape. The anticipated glut of pre-Exit Day cases…
In ACL v Care Quality Commission [2021] UKUT HC/2729/2019 (ACC), the Upper Tribunal, Administrative Appeals Chamber, has provided helpful guidance on the interpretation of regulation 9 and regulation 15 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (“the…
In yesterday’s webinar, Sarah Prager and Ian Clarke discussed Data Protection. They covered:
The Data Protection Act 2018
Processing principles
Lawful processing
Special category data
Reasons for processing data
Fairness and transparency
Quantum – damages for…
