CASES
May 5, 2018
Commercial, Commercial Dispute Resolution
Richmond v Selecta Systems Ltd [2018] EWHC 1446 (Ch)
Charlie Newington-Bridges was instructed as sole counsel in a week long High Court trial involving novel questions of duties of directors to their employees in relation to personal data and malicious interference with personal data as
CASES
May 3, 2018
Inquests & Public Inquiries
Re: Andrew Smith
Two-day inquest into the death of a man who had a history of drug and alcohol misuse and significant mental health difficulties. He attended hospital after having been found with significant quantities of recreational and prescription
CASES
May 3, 2018
Banking, Commercial
Nationwide v EMW [2018]
Representing Nationwide in claim against its former solicitors for failing to obtain a valid guarantee for a commercial loan, and in its related claim against the alleged guarantor.
CASES
May 1, 2018
Landlord & Tenant, Real Estate
Food Convertors & Rothschild v Newell [2018] EWHC 926 (Ch)
John Sharples acted for the successful respondent in an appeal which determined whether adverse possession of land was established by enclosure and whether a squatter who obtained possession could lose it by reasons other than dispossession
CASES
May 1, 2018
Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Real Estate
Churston Golf Club v Haddock [2018] EWHC 347
John Sharples acted for the successful respondent in an appeal which established, for the first time, that it was legally possible to create a fencing easement by express grant. The court also held that the obligation
CASES
May 1, 2018
Planning
Clay v Welsh Ministers [2018] EWHC 2104 Admin
A listed building required its roof replacing. The owner said the Inspector failed to consider the proper issue in the case namely, which of two slates best fitted the roof. The judge held that he had
CASES
April 25, 2018
Wills & Trusts
Cooksley v Cole
8 November 2002 Neuberger J. A High Court decision of Neuberger J on the principles applicable to the construction of a Will. This case was cited with approval by the Court of in the case of
CASES
April 25, 2018
Inheritance Act Claims, Wills & Trusts
Thompson v Raggett [2018] EWHC 688 (Ch)
Alex Troup was instructed by Vlad Macdonald-Munteanu of Hugh James successfully represented Mrs Thompson in the recent High Court case of Thompson v Raggett [2018] EWHC 688 (Ch). Mrs Thompson brought a claim for reasonable financial
CASES
April 10, 2018
Children Public Law, Family & Divorce
Re G (A Child) (Fact-Finding Hearing)[2017] EWHC 2591 (Fam)
Abigail Bond represented the local authority in care proceedings in the High Court arising out of an acrimonious long-running private law dispute between the parents of a 12 year old girl, in which the mother had
CASES
April 4, 2018
Commercial Dispute Resolution
GB Railfreight v Network Rail [2018]
James Pearce-Smith represented a freight company in substantial claim for damage to its rolling stock following a landslide in Scotland. Claim currently being arbitrated.
CASES
April 1, 2018
Personal Injury
B v Ministry of Justice
The claimant was employed as an instructor at a prison when he was stabbed in the neck with a screwdriver by a prisoner. The claim was advanced on the basis that the prisoner’s history indicated that
CASES
April 1, 2018
Commercial, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Company
P v A
Adam acted for the applicant in a relatively high value application to set aside a statutory demand in relation to a dispute arising from the sale of a company. The case raised complicated issues relating to