CASES
September 28, 2021
Inquests & Public Inquiries
Re: Sam Pounsberry
Marcus Coates-Walker was instructed by Royds Withy King to represent the family in an inquest into the death of a woman who ended her life while detained as an inpatient on a mental health ward in Devon. The Coroner
CASES
August 4, 2021
Children Public Law
Re S (2021)
Dominik Morton represented the respondent father at a composite seven-day fact-finding and final hearing involving various allegations of serious domestic violence, and coercive and controlling behaviour.
CASES
July 23, 2021
Personal Injury, Personal Injury Fraud
Walkden v Drayton Manor Park Ltd [2021] EWHC 2056 (QB)
Andrew McLaughlin has succeeded in a 2-day High Court appeal against Satinder Hunjan QC before Mrs Justice Tipples DBE, who upheld a finding below by HHJ Murdoch that a claim for in excess of £1.5m should be
CASES
June 16, 2021
Personal Injury, Personal Injury Fraud
Kabill v Walsall Council
A fraudulent claimant, Mr Mohammed Yaqub Kabil was jailed for six months in contempt proceedings that flowed from a public liability multi-track trial in which Darren Lewis of our Personal Injury team secured a finding of fundamental dishonesty.
CASES
June 15, 2021
Disputed Wills, Wills & Trusts
Hughes v Pritchard and others [2021] EWHC 1580 (Ch)
The High Court has recently handed down judgment in the case of Hughes v Pritchard and others [2021] EWHC 1580 (Ch) following a hybrid trial conducted in person and remotely, with some of the evidence being given in
CASES
May 10, 2021
Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Real Estate
P v D [2021]
Adam Boyle acted in a week-long trial in front of HHJ Mitchell which involved various complicated agricultural law themes.
CASES
May 6, 2021
Administrative Law, Judicial Review, Public & Administrative Law
R. (Croyde Area Residents Association) v North Devon District Council and Parkdean Holiday Parks Ltd [2021] EWHC 646 Admin
Peter Wadsley was instructed by the defendant, North Devon District Council, in a case where a neighbourhood group, Croyde Area Residents’ Association (CARA), sought judicial review to quash the grant of a planning permission to Parkdean
CASES
May 5, 2021
Inquests & Public Inquiries
Re: Elisa Fuller
Three-day inquest into the death of a baby who was born prematurely and died from cardiac arrest shortly after birth. The principal issue was the cause of the cardiac arrest, which the Coroner concluded was a
CASES
April 6, 2021
Commercial, Company
Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation v Hardy [2021] EWHC 714 (Ch)
Charlie Newington-Bridges was instructed by Willans LLP to act for the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (‘the Foundation’) in an application brought by the Foundation against one of its members who had made a request for a
CASES
April 1, 2021
Children Public Law
JB v SW [2021] EWHC 812 (Fam)
Lucy was successful in an appeal against an occupation order (pro bono).
CASES
March 11, 2021
Personal Injury
D v (1) A Clinician and (2) A Hospital Trust (anonymised for confidentiality
Ben is acting in a £500,000+ claim for a claimant who suffered a stroke when a feeding line was incorrectly inserted into an artery during routine surgery, leaving them with a host of speech, hearing mobility,
CASES
March 4, 2021
Children Public Law, Family & Divorce
YY (Children: Conduct of the Local Authority) [2021] EWHC 749 (Fam)
Kathryn Skellorn QC and Delia Thornton for the 1st and 2nd Interveners. Keehan J’s judgement (89 pages) was delivered at the conclusion of a fact-finding hearing on 3 applications: contact to children in care, discharge of