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It was entirely without irony that the Defendant in Williams-Henry v Associated British Ports Holdings Ltd & Anor (Re Wasted Costs) [2024] EWHC 2415 (KB)…
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To have one expert disregarded as partisan may be regarded as a misfortune; to have four (4!) described that way looks like carelessness… Whilst perusing…
No5 Barristers Chambers hosted Laura Daly, Alex Davenport and the Birmingham Law Society for a breakfast seminar. Steven Fisher and Alex Mellis deliver an insight…
The No5 Employment Group invites you to attend our Spring Seminar at our new office at 103 Colmore Row in Birmingham. Talks will cover topics…
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When is a post-employment restriction not reasonable? ‘When you previously signed your employee up to a less restrictive covenant’ is one answer. That perhaps oversimplifies…
Since this is a legal article (but not legal advice) I suppose it is best to be as precise as possible. So let us start…
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Picture the scene with me. Whilst gathered around the water-cooler chatting about causation, as is of course the wont of personal injury lawyers, the topic…
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Just how do you value damages where there are injuries falling within the tariff regime for whiplash injuries and non-tariff injuries? A question so vexing…
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In a commendably succinct judgment the Court of Appeal have given some important guidance in the operation of setting aside a notice of discontinuance, QOWCS…
Mulholland v Hughes (18 September 2015, unreported; HHJ Freedman) has finally been the subject of an appeal and approved in a decision that binds the…
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Beware a Claimant Bearing Fixed Costs Consent Orders: Reference to ‘detailed assessment’ disapplies fixed costs Woe betide the Defendant who takes great efforts to amicably…
The decision of HHJ Ralton in Abrahart v University of Bristol has been widely reported in the press. Helpfully the judgment can be found on…
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Another defendant has expended much time and money only to see their fundamental dishonesty finding overturned on appeal. In Jenkinson v Robertson [2022] EWHC 756…
The appeal in Greyson v Fuller [2022] EWHC 211 (QB) has arrived and Foster J has confirmed that Mason v Laing was indeed excessively draconian….
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The High Court has again had cause to consider the question of whether a claimant is fundamentally dishonest in Palmer v Mantas & Liverpool Victoria…
