So-called “secondary victim” claims for damages for psychiatric injury are hard to establish. For the last 30 to 40 years, and for reasons founded in both difficulties of diagnosis and perhaps a mistrust of injuries you cannot see, claims for damages for psychiatric injuries have…
One of the key issues now facing the country revolves around when and if schools should reopen. At times the debate has appeared to pit Central Government against Local Authorities, teachers against parents, and doctors against scientists. Few people, however, have examined the legal aspect…
As we face more time under the shadow of Covid-19, now in this ‘new normal’, many of us are using technology more and seeing the legal issues that are arising out of it/IT. There have been Data Protection and Human Rights issues raised about the…
Daily life continues to be dominated by the widespread impact of Coronavirus. In this briefing we bring you a round-up of some of the ways in which coronavirus is having an impact on litigation and Medical Law. Ella Davis and Sarah Prager look at the…
In recent years there has been a substantial body of case law – both at European and domestic level – on the proper scope of Chapter II, Section 4 of recast Brussels I (No 1215/2012): the consumer contracts ground of jurisdiction. The trend, discernible at…
In our latest Police Law Briefing, 1 Chancery Lane’s Geoffrey Weddell discusses the potential liability of police forces for the contraction of Covid-19 by police officers or staff and Ella Davis provides us with a quick refresher on managing Human Rights Act claims and a reminder…
One of the (very few) consolations of the present emergency has been the chance to catch up on the great television of years past. I have spent this week bingeing on the BBC’s 1994 adaptation of Middlemarch. My own advancing years have lent a new…
What a strange time we find ourselves in. As we are inundated with headlines and statistics daily, I can fully see how this may be a difficult time to find focus. But litigation rumbles on in the shadows of the coronavirus outbreak. As we all…
This last week has been interesting for Personal Injury lawyers, not only because of the continuing effects of the Coronavirus public health emergency, but also because the Supreme Court has handed down several long awaited judgments that have clarified and developed important aspects of the…
In this edition: John Bryant analyses a recent decision on waiver of the right to forfeit which applies known principles to a demand of insurance rent; Chris Pask looks at the standard the court requires when controlling the conduct of an administrator; Maurice Rifat writes…
In this edition, I have mined the archives (topically, I hope) for some case notes dating back to 2004 when Sarah Prager and I did battle in an appeal arising out of the cancellation of a package holiday to Hong Kong at the time of…
In an effort to avoid the C-word and to provide some distraction in these troubled times, this Newsletter concentrates on two recent High Court decisions: Pandya v Intersalonika [2020] EWHC 273; [2020] 1 WLUK 246 (QB) and Perez v KBC Verzekeringen & Others [2020] 21…
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