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Amendments After the Expiry of Limitation: Libyan Investment Authority v King
This week the Court of Appeal handed down Judgment in the case of Libyan Investment Authority & Ors v King & Ors [2020] EWCA Civ 1690, in which it considered the wording of CPR r.17.4(2) and section 35(5)(a) of the Limitation Act 1980. The appeal was heard by Floyd, Arnold and Nugee LJJ on 26th […]
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Darryl Allen QC and Andrew Wille Settle Above-Knee Amputation Claim
Darryl Allen QC and Andrew Wille represented the Claimant, a 32 year old man, in the matter of Daniel Joldes v CFBD Ltd. Mr Joldes suffered a trans-femoral amputation of the right leg as the result of a construction site accident in which the dumper truck that he was operating flipped over. The Claimant had not been wearing […]
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Farrar’s Building Welcomes New Tenant Stuart Brady
Chambers is delighted to welcome Stuart Brady as a Tenant joining Farrar’s Building in December 2020. Stuart is an experienced civil practitioner with very solid foundations built from his time at Ropewalk Chambers, the premier civil set in the Midlands. After relocating to London to be closer to family, Stuart is delighted to be joining […]
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High Court Rules: SDT Wrong to find Misconduct Against Solicitor for what Happened in his Private Life.
Solicitor Ryan Beckwith had caught the attention of the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (‘SRA’) back in 2017. Following a drunken but consensual sexual encounter with a junior colleague, Mr Beckwith was found to have failed to have acted with integrity or behave in a way that maintains public trust in the profession. In Beckwith v Solicitors […]
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CRU Provisions Found Non-Compliant with Insurers’ (Property) Rights Under Human Rights Act
Opening Comment Samuel Irving sets out below in some detail a decision of potentially great significance on Compensation Recovery Unit (“CRU”) payments made by insurers. A long standing complaint of insurers in personal injury and clinical negligence claims has been their liability for 100% of CRU notwithstanding, for a number of reasons, there being no […]
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Strike out application for abuse of process following Cable v LVI.
Tom Bourne-Arton was recently instructed by the first of three Defendants in an Employers’ Liability personal injury claim at the hearing of the Defendants’ respective applications to strike out the claim as an abuse of process. Although not known, this may well be the first successful application to strike out a claim as an abuse […]
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Business Interruption Insurance: The Supreme Court Considers the Decision in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and others
The appeal against the High Court decision in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and others [2020] EWHC 2448 (Comm) was heard by the Supreme Court last week from 16th November 2020 before Lords Reed, Hodge, Briggs, Hamblen and Leggat, and lasted four days. Background On 15th September 2020, judgment in the landmark […]
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Civil Standard of Proof Applies to Inquest Conclusions of Suicide and Unlawful Killing, Supreme Court Rules.
The Supreme Court last week handed down its much-awaited judgment in R (on the application of Maughan) v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46. By a 3-2 majority, the Court held that in inquests the civil standard of proof applies to all short-form and narrative conclusions of suicide. The civil standard should […]
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