Johnathan has been instructed to advise and represent the Welsh FA in a claim brought against the governing body by a participant in a professional football match. The case concerns the duty of care of the referee in the conduct of the game. The case will examine the scope of the duty of match officials to participants in competitive sport and what instruction and training is given. Johnathan is instructed by Christopher Oldfield, Partner at Kennedys Manchester.
In this week’s edition Linda Nelson examines how and when to serve surveillance evidence, and how and when to respond to it; and John Schmitt asks whether it’s necessary to have a claim form re-sealed if it’s been amended prior to service, and urges caution…
This week Thomas Yarrow revisits the vexed question of the use of artificial intelligence in legal research – and our intrepid reporter finds that it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact the experience led him to such depths of despair that he…
This week Ben Rodgers relays two tales from the coalface, both relating to applications to resile from admissions. Readers will be interested to know that in both cases the court applied the balance of prejudice test with the result that the defendants’ applications were refused….
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