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Litigation Letter

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..
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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..
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Removal of ambiguity

Brennan v Prior and others [2015] EWHC 3082 (Ch), [2015] All ER (D) 119 (Nov) NLJ 20 November 2015
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Court of Protection

Public hearings
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Ambiguous retainer

Vlamaki v Sookias & Sookias [2015] EWHC 3334 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 218 (Nov); NLJ 4 December
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Donatio mortis causa

King v Chiltern Dog Rescue and Redwings Horse Sanctuary [2015] EWCA Civ 581; LSG 23 November
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Solicitors awarded damages against insurer

Gavin Edmondson Solicitors Limited v Haven Insurance Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 1230 2 December
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Unbundling duty of care

Sharon Minkin v Lesley Landsberg (trading as Barnet Family Law) [2015] EWCA Civ 1152 NLJ 20 November
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Damages for economic loss

Wellesley Partners LLP v Withers LLP [2015] EWCA Civ 1146, [2015] All ER (D) 146 (Nov) NLJ 4 December
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

On non-English speaking defendant

Tseitline v Mikhelson and others [2015] EWHC 3065 (Comm), [2015] All ER (D) 252 (Oct) NLJ 13 November
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

£850,000 fine for nuisance calls

Millions of ‘deliberate’ nuisance calls results in almost 2,000 complaints to Ofcom
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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..
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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..
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Defamation

Up or Down?
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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. He..
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Reporting financial details of divorce

Appleton v Gallagher: Family Division: 28 September LSG 21 October
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Slovenian divorce

Ramadani v Ramadani [2015] EWCA Civ 1138, [2015] All ER (D) 115 (Nov) NLJ 27 November
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Jurisdiction

Re N (Children) (Adoption: Jurisdiction) [2015] EWCA Civ 1112, [2015] All ER (D) 32 (Nov) NLJ 13 November
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Insolvency

No mercy for creditors
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Global business disputes

Innovation and investment
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Enforcing Nigerian award

IPCO (Nigeria) Ltd v Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [2015] EWCA Civ 1144, [2015] All ER (D) 103 (Nov); NLJ 27 November
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Unjust enrichment

Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus UK Ltd SC TLR 7 December
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

Faute grave

Total Mauritius Ltd v Abdurrahman (Mauritius) [2015] UKPC 45, [2015] All ER (D) 124 (Nov) NLJ 20 November
Online Published Date:  22 December 2015

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