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By: Kelly Penstone-Smith
Farrar’s Building Covid-19 Court Protocols & Guidance Summary
Since lockdown was announced by the Prime Minister on 23rd March 2020, Courts and circuits have had to develop their own guidance and protocols for deciding which cases will be heard remotely and by what means. They have had to do so rapidly and in the face of an ever changing environment of Government guidance […]
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WEBINAR: Abuse of Process – Applications in Focus
Date: 16 June 2020 @ 16:30 Duration: 40 minutes Presenter: Martin Ferguson In the sixth webinar of the series, we discuss the categories of Abuse of Process and the specifics of applications. There is a particular focus on applications for Strike Out,pursuant to CPR 3.4(2)(b). For a recording of the webinar, please click here.
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Queens Bench Guidance
Please find the latest Queens Bench guidance for hearings from June 15, before QB Masters, here.
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WEBINAR: Travel Law & Covid-19 – Where do we go from here?
Date: 2 June 2020 @ 16:30 Duration: 1 hour Presenter: Frederick Lyon We discuss the impact of Covid-19 on the travel industry, to include claims under the Athens and Montreal Conventions. We also look at the rules regarding quarantine and whether there could be claims in negligence against the supplier, for failure to prevent the […]
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Updated Civil Listing Priorities W/C 25.05.20
For an update of the civil listing priorities during the current pandemic, please click here.
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Abuse of Process: Court of Appeal refuses permission to appeal strike out of credit hire claim
In the third and final round of this claim, the Court of Appeal has refused the Claimant permission to appeal the concurrent conclusions of DDJ Shedden and HHJ Murdoch QC. The acceptance of the offer expressed in the Stage 2 Pack amounted to full and final settlement of the entire claim. In what was essentially […]
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WEBINAR: Vicarious Liability – Have the Decisions in Barclays & Morrisons Changed Anything?
Date: 21 May 2020 @ 16:30 Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Andrew Peebles & Tom Bourne-Arton We discuss the twinned cases of Barclays Bank plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13, and WM Morrisons Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12. We look at what the Supreme Court decisions say and whether the Judgments have […]
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When Does a Successful PI Claimant NOT Recover All Their Costs?
The costs decision in Morrow v Shrewsbury Rugby Union Football Club [2020] EWHC 999 (QB) was recently handed down and is a helpful reminder of the discretion of the court in costs matters. The Claimant was successful in the PI action but was held to have exaggerated the claim, but not sufficiently for fundamental dishonesty […]
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