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Recent Cases

  • 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