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Enforcement of Judgments Pending Appeal: Motorola Solutions v Hytera Communications [2024] EWHC 149 (Comm)
As anticipated, Brexit has made the lives of cross border practitioners far more interesting, and no more so than in connection with enforcement. After all, there’s little point…
Speaking of John’s retirement, Joint Head of Chambers Jacob Levy KC said:
“It is with some sorrow that we announce the retirement from practice at the Bar of John Foy KC.
John was called in 1969. He has spent his whole professional…
Further confusion reigns this week over additional fees charged to air passengers for de-packaged services ancillary to flights. This time the spotlight is on Wizz Air, the Hungarian low-cost airline.
Wizz Air appears to have as many as four different options for…
On 21 June 2023, a maintenance worker at Central Middlesex Hospital, named Matteo Bottarelli, carried out a spree of unprovoked and savage attacks against his colleagues.
The violence began when Bottarelli armed himself with a mattock – a tool similar to a…
The Court of Appeal has today handed down its long-awaited judgment in Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services & Others (2024). It held, by a majority of 2 to 1, that a person who deliberately and unlawfully kills whilst insane is not barred…
Defective Service, and the mandatory provisions of CPR 11
Travel Law practitioners will be familiar with the difficulties involve with service of the claim form out of the jurisdiction, which have been exacerbated post Brexit. The issues of jurisdiction following defective service,…
Ian Clarke successfully acted for the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police in this appeal against the ICO’s decision to compel the provision of information under the Freedom of Information Act. The judgment offers some useful guidance for public bodies seeking to…
The Court of Appeal handed down judgment yesterday in Roberts v Jones [2024] EWCA 118 and [2024] EWHC 290 (KB), allowing the appeal. Simon Butler and Anirudh Mandagere acted for the Appellant. They were instructed via Advocate.
You can read the judgment…
Service and Jurisdiction: Lunn v Antarctic Logistics Centre International [2023] EWHC 2856 (KB)
In a recent case it fell to Master Thornett to apply the rules on extension of time for service and for challenging jurisdiction, albeit in an unusual factual context.
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In welcome news for practitioners, changes have this week been announced to address what PIBA describes as ‘long-standing flaws in the fixed recoverable costs (FRC) regime for advocates’. These include:
The failure to increase fixed advocacy fees in line with inflation for…
