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Consent orders – id certum est quad reddi potest
Scammell and others v Dicker CA TLR 27 April
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Rescission of order
Papanicola v Humphreys and others ChD TLR 28 April
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No asset-freezing order in foreign insolvency
Fourie v Le Roux and others CA TLR 25 April
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Injury to land
When will a court grant an injunction or damages for injury to land? This question was considered by Stephen Bickford-Smith in a three-page article in the Solicitors’ Journal of 1 April. In regard to tortious interference with land not..
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Prison disciplinary proceedings unfair
Whitfield and others v United Kingdom (Application nos 46387/99, 48906/99, 57410/00 and 57419/00) ECtHR TLR 27 April
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Costs against recalcitrant mother
In re T (a child) [2005] EWCA Civ 311
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Shared residence
In re R (children) CA SJ 29 April
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Contempt
In re M (children) CA SJ 22 April
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Costs order in child abduction
EC-L v DM (child abduction: costs) FD TLR 10 May
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Children of same sex couple
In re G (children) (residence: same sex partner) CA TLR 29 April
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No duty of care to parents
D v East Berkshire Community Health NHS Trust and another and two related cases HL TLR 22 April
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Similar-fact evidence
O’Brien v Chief Constable of South Wales Police HL TLR 29 April
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Admissibility disputes
Stroude v Beazer Homes Ltd CA TLR 28 April
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Commission where no completion
Foxtons Ltd v Thesleff and another CA SJ 29 April; TLR 16 May
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Laches
Patel and others v Shah and others [2005] EWCA Civ 157; NLJ 29 April
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Application out of time
Marks and Spencer plc v Williams-Ryan [2005] EWCA Civ 470; SJ 29 April
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Discrimination abroad
Saggar v Ministry of Defence CA TLR 9 May
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The Information and Consultation of Employee Regulations 2004
These Regulations (SI 2004 No 3426) came into force on 6 April introducing consultation requirements on organisations with more than 150 employees about various commercial and confidential decisions. They require employers to engage in ‘the..
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Childcare minimum leave
Rodway v New Southern Railways Ltd (formerly South Central Trains Ltd) CA TLR 21 April
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Professional negligence
Beary v Pall Mall Investments [2005] EWCA Civ 415; SJ 29 April
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Most claims are not ‘try-ons’
In his inaugural speech as the new president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, Alan Gore QC said that according to APIL research, insurers only admitted liability in 37% of cases under £5,000 which were won by APIL members...
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Police duty of care
Brooks v Metropolitan Police Commissioner and others [2005] UKHL 24; NLJ 29 April
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GP payment scheme
The Association of Medical Reporting Organisations has introduced a cost-and-payment system for general practitioner reports in personal injury cases under the predictive fees scheme, to which 52 insurers have signed up. Under the predictable costs..
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Burden of proof not the answer
Stephens and another v Cannon and another CA TLR 2 May
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Limitation of damage
Seismic Shipping Inc and another v Total E & P UK plc QBD TLR 4 May
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Chancery – Pass It On
Two cases in which the Court of Appeal criticised the allocation of Chancery work to a district judge without sufficient experience and expertise, together with an article by Daniel Lightman in the New Law Journal of 4 February, have focused..
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Contractual costs
Venture Finance plc v Mead and another [2005] EWCA Civ 325
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Against non-party director
Goodwood Recoveries Ltd v Breen: Breen v Slater [2005] EWCA Civ 414; SJ 29 April
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LEI v CFA
Addressing the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers annual conference, Roger Bolt advised solicitors not to simply send clients onto an insurers’ panel as soon as they discover that the client has legal expenses insurance. There was no..
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Cards must be on the table
Hertsmere Primary Care Trust and others v Estate of Balasubramaniam Rabindra-Anandh and another ChD TLR 25 April
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Percentage award
Clark v Devon County Council CA TLR 22 April
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Test for permission
Convergence Group plc and another v Chantrey Vellacott (a firm) CA TLR 25 April
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Nautical assessors
Owners and Bareboat Charterers of the Vessel ‘Global Mariner’ v Owners and Bareboat Charterers of the Vessel ‘Atlantic Crusader’ [2005] EWHC 380 (Admlty); NLJ 15 April
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Two-stage CFA success fees
KU (a child, by her mother and litigation friend PU) v Liverpool City Council [2005] EWCA Civ 475; TLR 16 May (reported as ‘U v Liverpool City Council’)
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