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