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Barristers’ earnings hit £1.5bn
The total earnings of barristers have risen to £1.5bn in the last recorded year, up 5% on the year before, and 11% two years before. Independent finance provider LDF says that, based on HMRC tax returns data, barristers’ average yearly..
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No gentleman
When FE Smith, the distinguished lawyer and aloof Conservative MP, was asked by JH Thomas, a new Labour MP, where the House of Commons’ toilets were, Smith is reputed to have replied: “Go further down this corridor. You’ll see a..
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Removal of ambiguity
Brennan v Prior and others [2015] EWHC 3082 (Ch), [2015] All ER (D) 119 (Nov) NLJ 20 November 2015
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Security
Harlequin Property (SVG) Ltd and another v Wilkins Kennedy (a firm) [2015] EWHC 3050 (TCC), [2015] All ER (D) 268 (Oct) NLJ 13 November
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Court of Protection
Public hearings
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Ambiguous retainer
Vlamaki v Sookias & Sookias [2015] EWHC 3334 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 218 (Nov); NLJ 4 December
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Budget increase
Capital For Enterprise Fund A LP and another v Bibby Financial Services Ltd (Costs) [2015] Lexis Citation 284, [2015] All ER (D) 222 (Nov) NLJ 4 December
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Life sustaining treatment ended
M v N (By her litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) and others [2015] EWCOP 76, [2015] All ER (D) 198 (Nov) NLJ 4 December
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Residency test is lawful
Public Law Project v Lord Chancellor (Office of the Children’s Commissioner intervening) [2015] EWCA Civ 1193, [2015] All ER (D) 219 (Nov) NLJ 4 December
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Donatio mortis causa
King v Chiltern Dog Rescue and Redwings Horse Sanctuary [2015] EWCA Civ 581; LSG 23 November
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Art 8 v Art 10
Weller and others v Associated Newspapers Ltd [2015] EWCA Civ 1176, [2015] All ER (D) 194 (Nov) NLJ 4 December
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Solicitors awarded damages against insurer
Gavin Edmondson Solicitors Limited v Haven Insurance Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 1230 2 December
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Modern day application
Cavendish Square Holdings BV v El Makdessi and Beavis v ParkingEye Ltd [2015] UKSC 67, [2015] All ER (D) 47 (Nov). NLJ 4 December
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Databases
Freistaat Bayern v Verlag Esterbauer GmbH (Case C-490/14 EU:C:2015:735; [2015] WLR (D) 431 ECJ: 29 October 2015; SJ 10 November
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Unbundling duty of care
Sharon Minkin v Lesley Landsberg (trading as Barnet Family Law) [2015] EWCA Civ 1152 NLJ 20 November
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Damages for economic loss
Wellesley Partners LLP v Withers LLP [2015] EWCA Civ 1146, [2015] All ER (D) 146 (Nov) NLJ 4 December
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On non-English speaking defendant
Tseitline v Mikhelson and others [2015] EWHC 3065 (Comm), [2015] All ER (D) 252 (Oct) NLJ 13 November
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£850,000 fine for nuisance calls
Millions of ‘deliberate’ nuisance calls results in almost 2,000 complaints to Ofcom
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Go for gross
One lesson for every adviser is not to agree a deal whereby your client is to receive a percentage of net profits. Those taking the money will seek to subtract every conceivable overhead so as to reduce the size of the fund upon which the percentage..
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The electronic working pilot scheme
The existing pilot scheme (as set out in Practice Direction PD51J) allowing for the electronic filing of claims and subsequent documents in the Technology and Construction Court is replaced by PD 510. The new scheme extends the pilot to the Chancery..
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Article risked serious prejudice at trial
Her Majesty’s Attorney General v Condé Nast Publications Ltd [2015] EWHC 3322 (Admin), [2015] All ER (D) 147 (Nov) NLJ 27 November
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Defamation
Up or Down?
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Small claims limit to be increased to £5,000
No general damages for soft tissue injuriesThe Chancellor, George Osborne, has announced the government’s intention to remove the right to general damages for soft tissue injuries and increase the small claims limit to £5,000.
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Court of Appeal over-ruled on wardship
Re J (A Child) (1996 Hague Convention) (Morocco) [2015] UKSC 70, [2015] All ER (D) 224 (Nov) NLJ 4 December
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Reporting financial details of divorce
Appleton v Gallagher: Family Division: 28 September LSG 21 October
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Slovenian divorce
Ramadani v Ramadani [2015] EWCA Civ 1138, [2015] All ER (D) 115 (Nov) NLJ 27 November
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Jurisdiction
Re N (Children) (Adoption: Jurisdiction) [2015] EWCA Civ 1112, [2015] All ER (D) 32 (Nov) NLJ 13 November
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Peremptory order
Pearl Petroleum Co Ltd and others v Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq [2015] EWHC 3361 (Comm); [2015] WLR (D) 476; SJ 1 December
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Insolvency
No mercy for creditors
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Global business disputes
Innovation and investment
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Assessing damages for wrong valuation
Titan Europe 2006-3 plc v Colliers International UK plc (in liquidation) [2015] EWCA Civ 1083, [2015] All ER (D) 37 (Nov) NLJ 13 November
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Enforcing Nigerian award
IPCO (Nigeria) Ltd v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [2015] EWCA Civ 1144, [2015] All ER (D) 103 (Nov); NLJ 27 November
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Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service
Reform
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Unjust enrichment
Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus UK Ltd SC TLR 7 December
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Faute grave
Total Mauritius Ltd v Abdurrahman (Mauritius) [2015] UKPC 45, [2015] All ER (D) 124 (Nov) NLJ 20 November
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