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The Dekagram: 22nd April 2025
We hope our readers enjoyed the long Easter weekend and grasped the opportunity, as we did, to spend a restful few days away from the coalface. We kept one eye on the courts though, and it’s just as well we did, because last week brought…
The Dekagram: 1st April 2025
This week brings a further twist in the long and winding road to group claims, the High Court seemingly favouring ‘omnibus claims’ over the more procedurally complex Group Litigation Order option; and a case on who bears responsibility for transcribing audio files which is of…
The Dekagram: 24th March 2025
The current glut of cases on service outside the jurisdiction and on jurisdictional challenges more generally continues, and with no sign yet of the EU acceding to the UK’s attempt to join the Lugano Convention club, we see no reason why this type of satellite…
The Dekagram: 18th March 2025
This week the team, in a shameless demonstration of our multilingualism, brings you an article on Covid refund claims rendered in no fewer than three languages. And to cap it all the subject of the article is a claim in which Deka’s own Tom Yarrow…
The Doctrine of Foreign Acts of State Clarified: Abram and Others v UEFA [2025] EWHC 483 (KB)
On 28th May 2022, eight hundred supporters of Liverpool Football Club attended the UEFA Champions League Final at the Stade de France in Paris. The event descended into chaos, during the course of which it was alleged that they sustained injuries as a result of…
The Dekagram: 10th March 2025
This week we bring important guidance on where to issue claims and when to consider whether a split trial might be appropriate – and consider a case in which the Court of Protection deftly sidestepped a tricky jurisdictional question, which remains outstanding for another day….
The Dekagram: 3rd March 2025
This week we bring news of the current position on anonymity orders pending the decision of the Court of Appeal in PMC; and consider a late application to adduce expert evidence in the wake of the decision of the Court of Appeal in Yesss (A)…
The Dekagram: 24th February 2025
Following on from chambers’ highly successful and well attended conference on accidents and deaths abroad on 13th February, Thomas Yarrow has been thinking about the extraterritorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights, a question which should be of concern to all cross border…
The Dekagram: 17th February 2025
This week we examine a decision on the tension between open justice and protection of commercially sensitive information (we understand, by the way, that on 25th February the Court of Appeal will hear the appeal in PMC relating to the circumstances in which anonymity orders…
The Dekagram: 10th February 2025
This week we look at two decisions, both of which will be of critical importance to practitioners in pursuance of contested litigation. In one, unusually, without prejudice correspondence was admissible in a case involving fundamental dishonesty; whilst in the other, the court reviewed the authorities…
The Dekagram: 3rd February 2025
This week we draw to your attention the Justice Committee Call for Evidence on the work of the County Court: Call for Evidence – Committees – UK Parliament. Responses are due by 13th February and questions cover: Anyone working in the County Court is encouraged…
The Dekagram: 27th January 2025
This week’s Dekagram concentrates on matters of evidence: the use of Part 18 requests, and the admissibility of settlements in multiparty claims. In both instances the courts have grappled with the use of evidence of (at best) peripheral usefulness at the stage of proceedings at…
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