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Duty to check will
Humblestone v Martin Tolhurst Partnership (a firm) ChD TLR 27 February
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Order against future trespass
Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs v Drury CA TLR 15 March
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Concealment of fact
Williams v Fanshaw Porter & Hazlehurst (a firm) CA TLR 27 February
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Covert surveillance
Martin v United Kingdom ECHR TLR 26 February
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Divorce jurisdiction over illegal resident
Mark v Mark CA TLR 27 February
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Dealing with human rights
In re V (a child) (care proceedings: human rights claims) CA TLR 17 February
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Ancillary relief costs
C v C (costs: ancillary relief) [2004] 1 FLR 291; NU 27 February
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Lump sum after remarriage
K (formerly G) v G FD TLR 13 February
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5.00pm closure
In last month’s issue we suggested that the reason why judges on the South East Circuit are discouraged from sitting after 5.00pm might be to avoid paying overtime to court staff and security services. A more sinister explanation has now been..
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Legal advice privilege
Three Rivers District Council and others v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No 6) CA TLR 3 March
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Sleeping ET member
Stansby v Datapulse plc and another CA TLR 28 January
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Compensation for whistle-blowers
Virgo Fidelis Senior School v Boyle EAT TLR 26 February
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Effective date of dismissal
Fitzgerald v University of Kent at Canterbury CA TLR 4 March
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Calculating one year of service
Harper v Virgin Net Ltd CA TLR 16 March
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Compensation for injured feelings
Dunnachie v Kingston upon Hull City Council CA LSG 11 March
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Unlawful detention by police
R (Laporte) v Chief Constable of Gloucestershire Constabulary QB Div Ct TLR 26 February
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Holiday illness
Giambrone and others v JMC Holidays Ltd (formerly Sun World Holidays Ltd) CA TLR 18 February
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Liability for bad advice
Lennon v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis CA TLR 25 February
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Caps and estimates
Writing in the Law Society’s Gazette of 5 February, District Judge Peter Jolly considered s6 of the CPR Cost Practice Direction in the light of recent decisions in the Court of Appeal and Queen’s Bench Division. Paragraph 6.6 provides..
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Reasons for costs orders
Lavelle v Lavelle and others CA TLR 9 March
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Dual Part 36 offer
Mamidoil-Jetoil and another v Okta [2002] EWHC 2462 (Comm); [2003] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 42
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75% success fee
Wells v Sussex Ambulance Services SCCO 10 September 2003
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Enhanced interest
R v Bryn Alyn Community (Holdings) Ltd [2003] EWCA Civ 383
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Pre-action misconduct
McMinn v McMinn [2003] 2 FLR 839
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Costs capping
Smart v East Cheshire NHS Trust [2003] EWHC 2806
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What is a ‘material breach’?
Myler and Mirror Group v Williams [2003] EWHC 1587
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Indemnity appeal costs
Virani v Manuel Revert [2003] CA LTL 18 July
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Rudeness no bar to costs
Lawal v Northern Spirit [2004] EWCA Civ 208
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’Predictability and Budgeting’
Professor John Peyser has written a comprehensive and erudite article on ‘Predictability and Budgeting’ in the Civil Justice Quarterly for January which the Civil Justice Council has placed on its website at:..
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TAG cases settled
Sharratt v London Central Bus Company and other cases SCCO 16 February
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Effect of Part 36 payment on interest
William John Henry Johnson v Gore Wood & Co [2004] EWCA Civ 14
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Misleading conduct
Michael Douglas and others v Hello! Ltd and others [2004] EWHC 63 (Ch)
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CFA notices
The 34th update of the Civil Procedure Rules amends paragraph 19.4 (3) of the Costs Practice Direction with effect from 1 April to require that the information that must be given when disclosing details of a funding arrangement must include the..
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Predictable insurance premiums
CPR rule 45.10(2) (b), providing for the recoverability of the amount of an insurance premium under the RTA predictable costs recovery procedure, overlooked that membership organisations may recover as part of the costs of the case a sum that..
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CFA glitch
Ghannouchi v Houni Ltd and others SCCO 16 December; LSG 11 March
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Solicitor and client cap
Lynch v Paul Davidson Taylor (a firm) [2004] EWHC 89 (QB)
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The Principles of Glorious Sharia’a
Shamil Bank of Bahrain EC v Beximco Pharmaceuticals Ltd and others CA TLR 3 February
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Disclosure of documents
BNP Paribas v Deloitte & Touche [2003] EWHC 2874 (Comm); [2004] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 233
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Wasting their Lordships’ weekends
Yell Ltd v Garton CA TLR 26 February
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Green light for nuisance litigation
We are grateful to Marjorie Holmes and Paula Lennon of Davies Arnold Cooper for this item. They acted for the second, third and fourth defendants as well as the third, fifth, eighth and 10th Part 20 defendants in Arkin v Borchard Lines (No 2)..
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