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The Party Wall Act 1996 contains provisions that deal with service of documents by email
(s.15(1A)-(1C)). The provisions are similar to the CPR in that they require the recipient to
have stated a willingness to receive the notice or document…
Regular readers of this Journal will know that the picture illustrations used in our header tend to the literal (we yield to no one in our lack of imagination). It would, therefore, be customary to insert a “Clip-art” Spring Lamb for this…
2018 has started with an even greater degree of scrutiny upon abuse than ever before. Almost every corner of life is having light shone onto it in order to expose abuse. Naturally, not all allegations are meritorious, and even the dividing lines…
CN v Poole Borough Council
Briefing Note on the Decision of the Court of Appeal
On December 21st 2017, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in CN v Poole Borough Council. This briefing note explains this decision, which…
The end of the year lends itself to a time of reflection, and similarly to case-law reviews. As I pick which professional – from social workers to solicitors – to focus upon, I return to that reliable source of litigation: Construction. 2017…
For this final Newsletter of the year we return to private international law and the issue of
jurisdiction. Powerful obiter from the Court of Appeal suggests that the use of anchor
Defendants (Article 8(1) of recast Brussels I) needs to…
The Property Boundaries (Resolution of Disputes) Bill (“the Bill”) has entered the committee stage of examination and debate in the House of Lords.
The law normally exists to give certainty about the effect of a person’s intentions. Nowhere is
that more important than in the realm of wills and properties, where wills are construed in
accordance with the intention of the deceased. Sometimes…
This was a tragic case in many respects. In 2007 the Claimant’s father shot and killed her
mother. He was convicted of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. He
was sentenced to a hospital order under Section 37 of…
So far in 2017 there have been two cases which have clarified the need for claimant parties to
establish causation on a conventional basis in cases where a breach of duty in respect of a
clinician’s obtaining of medical consent…
