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Recent Cases

  • CASES

    April 18, 2019

    Inquests & Public Inquiries

    Re: Mussard

    Marcus Coates-Walker acted for HMP Parc. The Coroner concluded that Mr Mussard's death came about as a result of natural causes.

  • CASES

    April 16, 2019

    Children Private Law, Family & Divorce

    GCC v A v R

    Asha represented the father at this final hearing before the DFJ following a fact finding hearing when her client was found to have inflicted serious brain damage on one of the children. She drafted a skeleton

  • CASES

    April 11, 2019

    Wills & Trusts

    Price v Saundry [2019] EWCA Civ 2261

    Scope of the trustee’s entitlement to indemnity costs in action by beneficiary against trustee.

  • CASES

    April 9, 2019

    Employers’ Liability, Personal Injury

    Shelbourne v Cancer Research UK [2019] EWHC 842 (QB); [2019] PIQR P16

    Matthew White was instructed to act on behalf of Cancer Research UK in Shelbourne v Cancer Research UK [2019] EWHC 842 (QB), the latest case on the scope of an employer’s vicarious liability for the acts

  • CASES

    April 8, 2019

    Children Private Law, Family & Divorce

    A v A

    Asha represented the mother in this private law matter when the s7 author had concluded that she was alienating the child from her father and a transfer of residence could be considered.

  • CASES

    April 4, 2019

    Wills & Trusts

    Gregory v Moore & Others [2019] EWHC 2430 (Ch)

    Determination of admissible evidence and pleadings on the assertion of unlawful killing in forfeiture proceedings where that assertion had not been the subject of a criminal trial.

  • CASES

    April 2, 2019

    Inquests & Public Inquiries

    Re: George Twiddy

    Marcus Coates-Walker was instructed on behalf of the family at the inquest of George Twiddy who ended his own life after becoming overwhelmed with psychosis and voices in his head. Despite George’s worsening mental health (which resulting

  • CASES

    February 14, 2019

    Family & Divorce

    L-W Children [2019] EWCA Civ 159

    Delia acted for the second respondent and was instructed by Haines and Lewis.

  • CASES

    February 8, 2019

    Agriculture & Rural Affairs

    Toms v Ruberry [2019] EWCA Civ 128

    Forfeiture action in respect of breaches of covenant relating to a lease of a Public House in Cornwall. Defended by the tenant on the basis that the statutory notice that had to be served prior to

  • CASES

    February 5, 2019

    Clinical Negligence

    S v E (2019)

    Robert acted for the defendant in a claim concerning negligently performed hip replacement surgery.

  • CASES

    December 13, 2018

    Inquests & Public Inquiries

    Re: Stephen Thurman Newell

    Marcus Coates-Walker was instructed by Irwin Mitchell Solicitors to appear at a 3-day inquest into the death of a former police officer who died from an asthma attack after facing delays in an ambulance being sent to his

  • CASES

    December 12, 2018

    Administration of Estates, Wills & Trusts

    Mussell v Patience [2018] 4 WLR 57

    His Honour Judge Paul Matthews, sitting as a judge of the High Court, handed down judgment on 8 March 2018 in the Chancery Division of the Bristol District Registry. The court ruled on an issue that