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Recent Cases

  • CASES

    August 1, 2018

    Wills & Trusts

    Millar v Millar [2018] EWHC 1926 (Ch)

    Christopher Jones advised and represented the successful claimants in their application for orders in the construction and rectification of a lifetime settlement. Conflicting provisions within the trust instrument provided that where a gift of the fund failed it

  • CASES

    July 6, 2018

    Clinical Negligence

    A v Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

    Failure to diagnose pyoderma gangrenosum.

  • CASES

    July 6, 2018

    Proprietary Estoppel, Wills & Trusts

    Culliford v Thorpe [2018] EWHC 426 (Ch)

    Adam represented the claimants in this proprietary estoppel/constructive trust case decided by HHJ Matthews sitting in the High Court in Bristol. The case received media attention as a result of the finding that a relatively informal

  • CASES

    June 21, 2018

    Personal Injury

    A v MOD

    The claimant was assaulted by fellow privates whilst posted in Cyprus. The claim was advanced on the basis of failure to act to prevent previous incidents of bullying. Compromise was reached at a joint settlement meeting

  • CASES

    June 18, 2018

    Wills & Trusts

    Culliford v Thorpe [2018] EWHC 426 (Ch)

    Joss acted for the successful defendant in the High Court in the much-publicised case of Culliford v Thorpe [2018] EWHC 426 (Ch). This case provides a useful example of the principles relating to common intention constructive trusts and

  • CASES

    June 12, 2018

    Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Wills & Trusts

    Gee v Gee [2018] EWHC 1393 Ch

    Leslie Blohm QC has recently been instructed in the latest farming case to consider a claim by a farmer’s child to the family farm. The claimant, now sixty years old, sought to succeed to the farm he was

  • CASES

    June 7, 2018

    Licensing

    Syed Ala Miah v East Devon Council

    This was an important test for the Equality Act in relation to taxis. Mr Miah, a driver licensed by Torbay Council, refused to take two visually impaired passengers and their two guide dogs (there was also

  • CASES

    June 7, 2018

    Inquests & Public Inquiries

    Alexander Pavlou deceased (PC Paul Young)

    Simon Morgan was instructed by Goldstone in Swansea into the death by immersion of inebriated student in river after contact with a police officer (Simon’s client). Article 2 engaged. Successful applications to exclude references to IPCC

  • CASES

    June 4, 2018

    Wills & Trusts

    Sinel v Hennessy [2018] JCA 095, Jersey Court of Appeal

    Nick Pointon, together with Advocate James Dickinson of Dickinson Gleeson, acted for the successful party, Advocate Philip Sinel, in landmark proceedings before the Jersey Court of Appeal (Bompas JA, McNeill JA and Wynn-Williams JA). The proceedings

  • CASES

    June 1, 2018

    Real Estate

    X v Y

    Adam helped to secure a circa quarter of a million pound settlement in a complicated multi-party commercial property damage case. The case involved a fire occurring as a result of the negligence of an adjacent business

  • CASES

    May 23, 2018

    Personal Injury

    Nicola Ward v Ministry of Defence

    Andrew McLaughlin, who has been reappointed by the Attorney General to the Government A Panel of Counsel, has successfully defended a claim for £1.4m brought by Nicola Ward, a former Sergeant and nurse in the RAF,

  • CASES

    May 10, 2018

    Personal Injury

    D v Football Club

    The claimant injured his shoulder whilst undertaking exercises as a trainee at a rugby football club ending any hopes the claimant had for a professional career. The claim hinged on evidence from expert physiotherapists and settled