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Breach of duty
Credit Lyonnaise SA v Russell Jones & Walker (a firm) (Ch D TLR 9 October)
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Duty on changing firms
Koch Shipping Inc v Richards Butler (a firm) (CA LSG 26 September p39)
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Last known residence
Chellaram and another v Chellaram and others ([2002] 3 All ER 17 Ch D)
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Compound interest on judgment?
The Law Commission has proposed that the courts should be given powers to award compound interest on money judgments for damages. The courts would be able to award simple or compound interest at the rates they saw fit. As a rule, the court would..
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Late payment of commercial debts
The Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 has been amended by the Late Payment of Commercial Regulations 2002 as follows:
The date from which all businesses and public sector bodies can claim interest for late payment is changed..
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Withdrawal of public funding
R (Alliss) v The Legal Services Commission (QBD (Admin) SJ 14 October LB215)
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Wife v trustee in bankruptcy
Mountney v Treharne (CA LSG 10 October p38)
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Undue influence
The guidance of the Law Society’s Conveyancing and Land Law Committee following the House of Lords’ decision in Royal Bank of Scotland v Etridge [2001] 3 WLR 1021 (20/LL p 104) is aimed at conveyancers rather than litigators. However,..
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Wrongful removal of teenager
In Re L (a child) (Abduction: Jurisdiction) FD LSG 17 October, TLR 14 October
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Child contact centres
The Child Contact Working Group (facilitated by the Lord Chancellor’s Department) has considered the definitions currently used for describing contact. The commonly used definitions are ‘supported’ and ‘supervised’...
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Judicial recusal
Berg v IML London Ltd ([2002] 4 All ER 87 QBD)
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Professional privilege in translations
Sumitomo Corp v Credit Lyonnais Rouse Ltd ([2002] 4 All ER 68 CA)
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‘Might well’ test for disclosure
Three Rivers District Council and others v HM Treasury and another (CA TLR 4 October)
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Submission of no case
Miller (trading as Waterloo Plan) v Cawley (CA TLR 6 September)
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Video link
Rowland and another v Bock QBD [2002] 4 All ER 370
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Dismissal for pornography
Thomas v Hillingdon LBC (EAT TLR 4 October)
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Dinner ladies not equal with refuse collectors
Lawrence and others v Regent Office Care Ltd and others (ECJ The Times 10 October)
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Small clinical negligence claims
The six-month pilot project to deal with small clinical negligence claims out of court within six months has now finished, without any immediate proposal for its continuation. It was a joint venture between the NHS litigation authority and the..
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Duty to dismiss employee
Coxall v Goodyear Great Britain Ltd ([2002] EWCA Civ 1010)
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Litigants in person
Two of the anomalies in the costs of litigants in person arise out of the provision that an LIP who has suffered financial loss is in a different category from one who has not. A litigant who ‘fails to prove financial loss’ (CPR..
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Solicitors Act assessment delay
McIllraith v McIllraith and Stevens & Bolton SCCO 15 2002
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Sanction for delay in commencing assessment
Button v Hill SCCO 11 of 2002
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Non-contentious probate
Jemma Trust Company Ltd v Forrester and another (SCCO 12 September unreported)
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The Supreme Court Costs Office guide
The Masters and Officers of the Supreme Court Costs Office have produced a new edition of the guide first produced in 1996. It is intended to be a helpful aide memoir for those appearing before them who, as the Master of the Rolls observes in his..
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Settlement without trial
Brawley v Marczynski CA [2002] All ER (D) 110
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Solicitor in person
Malkinson v Trim CA TLR 11 October; NLJ 4 October; SJ 27 September
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Benchmark costs
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London or provincial solicitors?
Ryan v Tretol Group Ltd and others ([2002] All ER (D) 156 (Jul))
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Security after change of address
Aoun v Bahri and another ([2002] 3 All ER QBD (Com Ct))
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Halloran backlash
‘Which Court of Appeal do we believe?’ (Mark Harvey, New Law Journal 27 September) ‘Halloran leaves PI “unworkable”’ (Solicitors Journal, 20 September) ‘Are conditional fees finished?’ (Kerry..
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Claim form aide memoir
In a two-page article in the Solicitors Journal of 27 September, Gordon Exall, after examining the questions of allocation and reallocation in the light of Maguire v Molin (921/LL p91), provided a helpful aide memoir on the statement of value in a..
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Farewell to the allocation questionnaire?
Since 8 July 2002, a small claims pilot scheme has operated in Lincoln, Wandsworth and Wigan County Courts, pursuant to a practice direction supplementing CPR Part 27. It has been extended until the end of the year. The purpose of the pilot scheme..
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Family work – the way ahead
Wish-list
At the President’s Interdisciplinary Conference the Rt Hon Lady Justice Hale summarised the way forward with this wish-list:
get the Adoption and Children Bill right this time and, once the legislation is right, consolidate it all..
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