CASES
November 14, 2019
Children Private Law
AY v AS [2019] EWHC 3043 (Fam)
Zoe Saunders successfully represented the father in this matter at final hearing in the High Court, resisting an application for leave to permanently remove the child to Kazakhstan. Zoe has particular expertise in cases involving an
CASES
November 13, 2019
Personal Injury
Gilbert v Payne
Andrew McLaughlin successfully defended a claim for damages arising out of a fatal road traffic accident in which the claimant motorcyclist, Mark Gilbert, collided with a cyclist, the late Stuart Payne. Mr Gilbert suffered very serious
CASES
September 30, 2019
Employers’ Liability, Industrial Disease, Personal Injury
Paul Brady v Hare and Hounds
Andrew McLaughlin, ranked in the Chambers UK industrial disease spotlight table, has successfully defended a public house in Manchester against an occupational disease employers’ liability claim brought by a former chef who alleged he was exposed to aspergillus fumigatus
CASES
September 16, 2019
Personal Injury, Public Liability
PH v City of Wolverhampton Council
Personal injury barrister, James Marwick, secured the dismissal of a £200,000 personal injury claim brought against the City of Wolverhampton Council after a two-day trial before Recorder Benson QC earlier this month at the Birmingham Civil
CASES
August 28, 2019
Wills & Trusts
Armstrong v Armstrong & Sutherland [2019] EWHC 2259 (Ch)
Nick Pointon acted in a successful application for the construction and rectification of two standard form trusts of life assurance policies.
CASES
August 27, 2019
Clinical Negligence
Howells v Cwm Taf University Local Health Board
Andrew McLaughlin has successfully defended a clinical negligence claim against a professor of colorectal surgery who was accused of dividing a ureter of a patient during laparoscopic surgery to remove cancer from his bowel which was
CASES
August 13, 2019
Licensing
Erkan Kutuk v North Somerset Council
Concern over complaints of aggression and a complaint of inappropriate sexual language to a lone female passenger led to the North Somerset Council licensing committee revoking a driver’s private hire licence with immediate effect.
CASES
August 9, 2019
Commercial, Insolvency
Webster v Ashcroft [2019] EWHC 2174 (Ch); [2019] All ER (D) 49 (Aug)
Oliver appeared for the successful respondent to an appeal dealing with the effect of the CRO regime under CPR Part 3 on the statutory requirements for the presentation of a bankruptcy petition and an application to
CASES
July 25, 2019
Personal Injury
De Boorder v Tilley
Ben acted for a skilled farm worker whose arm was pulled into the drive shaft of a tractor motor and thereby sustained a very serious open fracture with lifelong consequences for his ability to work and
CASES
July 11, 2019
Children Public Law
A LA v C
Asha represented the local authority at this IRH when there was unexplained bruising to the non mobile baby following the parents leaving the parent and child placement, the court having found in relation to a previous
CASES
July 9, 2019
Children Private Law, Family & Divorce
L v T
Asha represented the mother in this complex multi day private law fact finding hearing. She secured multiple findings against the father of significant verbal and physical abuse and rape. The judge commended Asha for her written
CASES
June 10, 2019
Wills & Trusts
Lines v Wilcox [2019] EWHC 1451 (Ch), [2019] WTLR 927, [2019] Costs LR 1215
Oliver appeared for the Claimant in a Beddoe application. HHJ Paul Matthews reviewed authorities dealing with the principles in making Beddoe orders where the underlying claim was in substance between beneficiaries who could make their own