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Defending Age Assessment Challenges: A Guide for Local Authorities
Age Assessment challenges are among the most difficult judicial review challenges faced by local authorities. In this Dekinar, Dr Russell Wilcox and Anirudh Mandagere consider how to defend such challenges both at the judicial review stage and at the Upper Tribunal. You can access the…
The Dekagram: 3rd November 2025
In this week’s dekagram Dominique Smith examines the all-important topic of Part 36 offers, and the knotty question of whether and how they can be withdrawn, whilst Russell Wilcox considers what currency costs orders should be made in. When can a Part 36 Offer be…
The Dekagram: 18th August 2025
This week we bring news from the gastric coalface; Dr Russell Wilcox examines a recent decision on appeal relating to a sickness claim. The judgment makes for illuminating reading, not least for the exploration of the parties’ expert evidence, and the pivotal role played by…
The Dekagram: 9th June 2025
This week Russell Wilcox and Thomas Clarke examine whether in applications to set aside default judgment there exists such a thing as a ‘co-defendant principle’; essential reading for all practitioners. Co-defendants and Applications to Set Aside: the More the Merrier? In the recent case of…
The Dekagram: 20th January 2025
This week we bring you a further example of the dangers associated with the use of artificial intelligence in litigation, without the tempering effect of any checks or balances. As more and more of these example come to light, we can expect the courts to…
Dekinar Recording: Actions Against the Police – A Primer
In yesterday’s webinar, Russell Wilcox looked at actions in Assault and Battery, Negligence and Harassment. These are the type of claims which are most often, though not invariably, associated with some form of personal injury. This webinar is the first in a short series offering…
Alternative Dispute Resolution Briefing: November 2023
In this briefing, Kerry Nicholson considers developments in the mediation market over the last 12 months, including the planned introduction of compulsory mediation in the small claims track and beyond. While we all await, with eagerness, the Court of Appeal’s decision in James Churchill v…
The Dekagram: 9th October 2023
This week’s Dekagram examines what happens when rules change: that transitional period between one set of rules and another, when no one is quite sure what’s happening. We seem to have had quite a few of those recently; just as we were getting over the…
TATLA Case Law Update
Matthew Chapman QC, Russell Wilcox and Ella Davis took attendees through the recent case law in cross border and holiday claims, looking at local standards; expert evidence; X v Kuoni in the CJEU and Rome II. After the update there was an opportunity to raise…
1CL Weekly Webinar: Damages Claims against the Home Office: the Implications of Hans Husson
The Court of Appeal case of R (Hans Husson) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 329 earlier this year highlighted the possibility of bringing claims in damages against the Home Office for delay in making immigration decisions, both under Article…
Dekinar: Actions Against the Police – A Primer
This webinar is the first in a short series offering a primer on the most common types of action brought against the police. In this first part, Russell Wilcox looks at actions in Assault and Battery, Negligence and Harassment. These are the type of claims…
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