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Acceptance by solicitors

Firstdale Ltd v Quinton QBD TLR 27 October
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Shareholders’ remedy is by petition

Bamber v Eaton and others ChD TLR 22 October
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Restraining persons unknown from breach of planning law

South Cambridgeshire District Council v Persons Unknown CA TLR 11 November
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No pre-publication injunction

Cream Holdings Ltd and others v Banerjee and others [2004]UKHL 44
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Gypsies

We reported the Court of Appeal’s decision that gypsies were entitled to remain living in their mobile homes despite breach of the planning laws (First Secretary of State and others v Chichester District Council, 23/LL p104). The reaction of..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

DCA Select Committee

The remit of the Constitutional Affairs Select Committee is to examine whether the family court system is being run effectively; whether family court judges have sufficient powers; the problem of delays; and whether people using family courts are..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Disclosure of solicitors’ file

Kimber v Brookman Solicitors [2004] 2 FLR 221
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Ancillary relief reform

The Department for Constitutional Affairs, in collaboration with the President’s Ancillary Relief Advisory Group and the Family Appeals Review Group, has published a consultation paper, Costs in Ancillary Relief Proceedings and Appeals in..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Mediation

al-Khatib v Masry CA TLR 21 October
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Child abduction

Cannon v Cannon CA TLR 28 October
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Children overrule equality

Deakin v Deakin [2004] FD LTL 21 June; Family Law Journal October
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Temporary removal of child

In re Auld (child: temporary removal from jurisdiction) CA TLR 10 November
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e-disclosure

A recent Commercial Court Users Committee working party report proposes that, in respect of emails and electronic documents in civil proceedings, solicitors should provide more details to their opponents of precisely what searches have been carried..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Legal advice privilege

Three Rivers District Council and others v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No 6) HL TLR 12 November
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No ban on prior publication

Greene v Associated Newspapers Ltd CA TLR 10 November
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‘Mind the step’

Home Office v Lowles [2004] EWCA Civ 985
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Failure to complete house

Gemma Ltd v Gimson and another [2004] EWHC 1982 (TCC); [2004] All ER (D) 59
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Date of assessment

Collins Stewart Ltd and another v The Financial Times Ltd QBD LSG 11 November
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Tackling the ‘compensation culture’

In its response to the Better Regulation Task Force (BRTF) report, Better Routes to Redress, the Government states that claims management companies offering ‘no win no fee’ deals have one last chance to get their house in order. To..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Liability for highway layout

Thompson (Fiona) v Hampshire County Council [2004] EWCA Civ 1016; TLR 14 October
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Ice on roads

Sandhar and another v Department of Transport, Environment and the Regions CA TLR 15 November
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Duty to warn of risk

Chester v Afshar [2004] UKHL 41; HL TLR 19 October
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Lost chance

Gibson v Clement Jones Solicitors (a firm) [2004] All ER (D) 127
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

NHS injury costs recovery

The Government has published draft regulations for the NHS Injury Costs Recovery Scheme, extending it to cover recovery of costs from insurance companies for treating patients in all cases where personal injury compensation is paid, in addition to..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Brief fee

XYZ v Schering Health Care SCCO Costs Appeal No 9 of 2004
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Additional liability recovery

At the Auckland round table discussion (above) the senior costs judge, Peter Hurst, said it must be faced that we may have to change the system of allowing success fees and insurance premiums to be recovered between the parties. Although many..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Costs-capping

At a round table discussion on civil justice issues in Auckland, the Master of the Rolls said that crude costs-capping in multi-track civil litigation cases would be ‘rough justice’, but it could be the only method of reining in the..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Order against expert witness

Phillips and others v Symes and others ChD TLR 5 November
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Order against third party

Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic Football Club Ltd v Lloyds TSB Bank plc [2004] EWCA Civ 935
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Publicly funded costs set-off

R (Burkett) v Hammersmith and Fulham LBC (No 2), Law Society and Legal Services Commission intervening CA TLR 20 October, LSG 4 November
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Fixed employers’ liability success fees

Commenting on the introduction of fixed success fees in non-disease employers’ liability cases (23/LL p98), David Urpeth of Berwin Mitchell wrote in Personal Injury Compensation for November on two issues arising: ‘Firstly, on cases..
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Attendance by video-link

Babbings v Kirklees Metropolitan Council CA TLR 4 November
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Post-writ contractual interest

Habib Bank Ltd v Dawood CA SJ 22 October
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Judicial review or ordinary action?

Phonographic Performance Ltd v Department of Trade and Industry and another ChD TLR 27 August
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

Offer without payment-in

Crouch v Kings Healthcare NHS Trust; Murry v Blackburn Hyndburn and Ribble Valley Healthcare NHS Trust CA TLR 9 November
Online Published Date:  01 December 2004

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