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Dekinar: Police Negligence Liability: an Update
In this webinar Paul Stagg KC talks about recent developments in the liability of the police in negligence, including the decisions in Chief Constable of Northamptonshire Police v Woodcock, and Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police. Richard Collier then considers tasers and the…
Estall v Sodexo – duty of care?
Richard Collier was instructed as sole counsel for the defendant by Michael Gwilliam, partner at DWF, and successfully applied to strike out a high value personal injury claim with enforceable costs. The case involved complex legal argument concerning duty of care. “I can see no…
The Dekagram: 24th June 2024
This week we bring news of another case on choice of law, this time in the context of a multiparty road traffic accident occurring in England. The judgment provides a useful reminder of how Article 4 of the Rome II Regulation operates. And there’s been…
Clinical Negligence Briefing: April 2024
Welcome to the Spring Clinical Negligence Briefing. It has been a busy start to 2024 for Deka’s clinical negligence team. We are delighted that two members of the team were appointed as silks in March 2024 (Paul Stagg KC and Edward Lamb KC) and we…
The Dekagram: 11th March 2024
This week’s Dekagram brings to our readers’ attention an interesting Court of Appeal decision on incorporation of standard terms via website tickbox – the conclusion seemingly likely to favour those travel agents and tour operators who seek to argue in favour of such incorporation. There…
Dekinar Recording: Griffiths v TUI – the Supreme Court Decision
In yesterday’s webinar Kerry Nicholson and Richard Collier, along with Jatinder Paul, Partner at Irwin Mitchell who represented Mr Griffiths, discussed the impact of this landmark decision. The speakers provided the facts of the case and its long journey through the courts and considered the…
Dekinar: Griffiths v TUI – the Supreme Court Decision
In this webinar Kerry Nicholson and Richard Collier of Deka Chambers, along with Jatinder Paul, Partner at Irwin Mitchell who represented Mr Griffiths, discuss the impact of this landmark decision. The speakers provide the facts of the case and its long journey through the courts…
The Dekagram: 6th November 2023
As you know, we keep a weather eye on what’s going on in other jurisdictions; often developments internationally can inform and sometimes even influence our own domestic law. We wonder whether the recent increase in the personal injury discount rate from -0.25% to 1% might…
Montague v The Governing Body of Heavers Farm Primary School
An unusual, complicated and interesting case which confronts the delicate conflict between religious belief and inclusive secular education. Earlier this year HHJ Lethem handed down judgment in Montague, a case that generated a good deal of press coverage. In this article Richard Collier considers the…
The Dekagram: 5th June 2023
Last week we were asking ourselves whether the courts’ introduction of artificial intelligence is imminent. This week we read that the time it takes to bring a claim to trial has reached an all-time high of just under 80 weeks, up six weeks from a…
The Dekagram 6th February 2023
The big news this week is that, as foreshadowed by Roderick Abbott here, CPR Part 44.14 is to be amended to reverse the decision in Ho v Adelekun [2021] UKSC 43. The amendment, which comes into force on 6th April 2023, will allow a Defendant…
Recent Court of Appeal Personal Injury Decisions
Excalibur & Keswick Groundworks Ltd v McDonald [2023] EWCA Civ 18 The issue How to approach setting aside of a Notice of Discontinuance pursuant to CPR 38.4 and the interpretation of the phrase “likely to obstruct the just disposal of the proceedings”, in CPR 3.4(2)(b)…
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