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‘Where a cup of hot coffee, which is placed on the tray table of the seat in front of a person in an aircraft in flight, for unknown reasons slides and tips over, causing a passenger to suffer scalding, does this constitute…
In this end of year article, Andrew Warnock QC asks the question many involved with the public sector have been asking since Poole v GN – when does an Assumption of Responsibility arise?
Whilst the Supreme Court did not give the clearest…
This edition’s contributors are all new members of Chambers who are writing for us for the first time. Their contributions reflect the breadth of our expertise at 1 Chancery Lane.
Richard Collier, has written about the restrictions on landlords serving section 21…
We end the year on a jurisdictional theme: a case-note on the Court of Appeal’s decision in the recent Lugano Convention case of JSC Commercial Bank v Kolomoisky & Anor. [2019] EWCA Civ 1708.
This decision (which has obvious potential relevance to…
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…
THE ILLEGALITY DEFENCE: BACK TO THE SUPREME COURT AGAIN
Illegality and the doctrine of “ex turpi causa non oritur acta” rival the issue of vicarious liability for the number of appellate level decisions they have generated in recent years. In Patel v…
Recent years have seen the Courts being better equipped to deal with the question of how to deal with claimants who falsify or exaggerate claims. As a body of case law begins to develop, this issue of the PI Briefing traces its…
This case concerned a jurisdictional challenge brought by two corporate entities, one English and one Zambian registered/domiciled, which made its way through the High Court ([2016] EWHC 975 (TCC)) and Court of Appeal ([2018] 1 WLR 3575) before a hearing in the…
In this inaugural briefing for our Public Law Group, Saleem Khalid and Richard Collier take a detailed
look at some of the key cases of the last twelve months affecting public authority liability. The
Supreme Court’s judgment in the case…
This edition of the Newsletter considers a recent decision in the County Court which, for the first time, was concerned with the application of the Bolam test to conventional travel litigation. Practitioners who
operate exclusively in this field will rarely have…