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SUMMARY:The Dekagram: 14th September 2026
DESCRIPTION:This week John Schmitt considers JBX v Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust [2026] EWHC 2294 (KB), a recent High Court decision on a ‘lost years’ claim brought by a child, whilst Bethany Hutchison takes a look at a case on ADR and indemnity costs. Quantifying Claims for Lost Years: the First Case Brought by a ...
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SUMMARY:Congratulations to Julia Brechtelsbauer on her appointment as APIL Junior Litigators’ Group Coordinator
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to share that Julia Brechtelsbauer has been appointed as a Junior Litigators’ Group Coordinator for the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL). In this role, Julia will help facilitate and chair group meetings, encourage engagement among members, contribute ideas and content for events, and act as a key point of contact for ...
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SUMMARY:Burgess v Sikorski: deputyship fees in Fatal Accidents Act claims
DESCRIPTION:By Susanna Bennett The High Court decision of Burgess v Sikorski is novel because the court addressed for the first time whether professional deputyship fees were recoverable in a Fatal Accidents Act case in which two dependants were protected beneficiaries. The answer of Mr Justice Aidan Eardley KC, sitting as a High Court Judge, was ...
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SUMMARY:Susanna Bennett returns from parental leave
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to share that Susanna Bennett has returned from parental leave and is available to take instructions. Susanna has a busy practice comprising civil claims and inquests concerning alleged failures in medical treatment, together with duty of care claims brought against employers, occupiers, surveyors, landlords, landowners, conveyancers, solicitors, highway authorities, education authorities and ...
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SUMMARY:The Dekagram: 7th September 2026
DESCRIPTION:This week Sarah Prager KC reports on the ongoing CMA investigation into drip pricing, and takes inspiration from a recent trip to the cinema to see The Odyssey when considering the ongoing EC review of the operation of the recast Brussels Regulation. The Competition and Markets Authority Investigation into Drip Pricing: Who’s in Trouble This ...
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SUMMARY:Sarah Prager KC to join debate at International Aviation Law Conference in Montréal
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Prager KC will be participating in a debate at the 16th McGill Aviation Liability, Insurance and Finance Law Conference, taking place on 10-11 September 2026 at the McGill Faculty Club in Montréal, Québec. The conference is hosted by the renowned McGill Institute of Air and Space Law and brings together leading practitioners, academics, insurers, aviation professionals, and ...
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SUMMARY:Re F (Children: Placement Orders: Proportionality) [2026] EWCA Civ 990 – A reminder of the need to properly analyse the ‘nothing else will do’ test
DESCRIPTION:Lucy Lodewyke writes about this recent appeal handed down on 29 July 2026, in which the Court of Appeal allowed a mother’s appeal against care and placement orders made in respect of her two young daughters and set aside those orders as neither necessary nor proportionate. The decision is a significant reminder of the “nothing ...
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SUMMARY:Mustafa (A Child) [2026] EWHC 2159 (Fam): A Robust Approach following “AGNI”
DESCRIPTION:Following Madeleine Miller’s July Dekagram on A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland of a devolution issue under paragraph 34 of Schedule 10 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 [2026] UKSC 16, [2026] 2 WLR 1087 (“AGNI”), comes the first significant application of the AGNI principles in a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguarding (DOLs) ...
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SUMMARY:The Dekagram: 1st September 2026
DESCRIPTION:This week Megan Bithel-Vaughan considers the circumstances in which a costs budget may not be varied, whilst Imogen Todd takes us back to the 80s, a Golden Age of litigation, when parties ambushed each other at trial and judges behaved even more splenetically than they do now. Your editor, Sarah Prager KC, recalls fondly the ...
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SUMMARY:Tara Vindis and Laura Hibberd appear in reported case concerning placement orders for children in care proceedings
DESCRIPTION:Tara Vindis and Laura Hibberd appeared in the recently reported case of Re C & Ors (Children: Placement or Special Guardianship) [2026] EWFC 231 (B), a complex and challenging decision concerning the court’s approach to placement orders and special guardianship for four siblings in care proceedings.   HHJ Willans was required to consider whether the children’s welfare was best served ...
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SUMMARY:The Dekagram: 24th August 2026
DESCRIPTION:This week the Dekagram considers two sorry tales of strike out: Robbie Parkin regales us with a sad story arising from the scattergun approach all too familiar to those responding to claims brought by litigants in person, whilst Sarah Prager KC examines the dangers inherent in defending a claim which might otherwise constitute an abuse ...
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SUMMARY:When a Fundamental Dishonesty Allegation Goes Wrong
DESCRIPTION:APIL is running a campaign to stop abuse of the rules on fundamental dishonesty by some defendants.  Ben Rodgers has a recent tale from the coalface. Tom was a ground worker.  In 2018, he was driving his employer’s flatbed van when the Defendant’s van drove into the back of it.  He immediately felt stiff and ...
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