CASES
September 19, 2024
Clinical Negligence
T v Barnsley Hospital NHS Trust (2024)
In this case report, Head of Clinical Negligence, Justin Valentine, counsel for the claimant, discusses a recent cauda equina syndrome case where an allegation of deliberate concealment by the claimant’s surgeon was made thereby engaging section
CASES
September 17, 2024
Boundary Disputes, Real Estate
Aplin & Aplin v Sloman
Kayleigh Bloomfield of our Real Estate team was instructed by Thomas Lewis of WBW Solicitors to act for the successful claimants in a claim for possession and a declaration of title by virtue of adverse possession to an
CASES
September 9, 2024
Disputed Wills, Wills & Trusts
Oliver v Oliver [2024] EWHC 2289 (Ch)
Joss Knight of our Wills & Trusts team was instructed by Wolferstans LLP to act for the successful claimant in Oliver v Oliver [2024] EWHC 2289 (Ch) before HHJ Matthews in which the last will of the claimant’s late father was declared invalid.
CASES
September 5, 2024
Judicial Review, Planning, Public & Administrative Law
R (ETM Contractors Ltd) v Bristol City Council and Esteban Investments Ltd [2024] EWHC 2263 (Admin)
Peter Wadsley acted for Bristol City Council in a judicial review (‘JR’) challenge by ETM to an outline planning permission granted by Bristol to Esteban on 22nd August 2023, for a development at a site known
CASES
August 21, 2024
Commercial, Commercial Dispute Resolution, Partnership, Real Estate
Lloyd v Hayward & Another [2024] EWHC 2033 (Ch)
Natasha Dzameh represented the successful Claimant in Lloyd v Hayward & Another [2024] EWHC 2033 (Ch), defending against an application to strike out the Claimant’s claim for abuse of process on the basis of allegations of
CASES
July 8, 2024
Commercial, Real Estate
Rarity Holdings Limited and David Parkhill [2024] EWHC 1637 (Ch)
Charlie Newington-Bridges acted for the successful respondent in a contract appeal heard by Mr Justice Zacaroli J in the High Court in the case of Rarity Holdings Limited and David Parkhill [2024] EWHC 1637 (Ch).
CASES
July 3, 2024
Administration of Estates, Real Estate, Wills & Trusts
McNiven v Niven, McNiven & Spencer-Futter [2024] EWHC 1840 (Ch)
Head of Chancery, Christopher Jones was instructed by Tony Pearce of Richard Nelson LLP to represent the claimant, Duncan McNiven, in his claim to establish a beneficial interest in a residential property in Tewkesbury.
CASES
July 3, 2024
Children Public Law, Family & Divorce
J: Local Authority consent to Deprivation of Liberty, Re [2024] EWHC 1690 (Fam)
Sophie Smith-Holland was instructed by Sophie Webb of RWK Goodman to represent the mother in an application by a Local Authority for a Deprivation of Liberty Order (“DoLs order”) in respect of a child, J, heard
CASES
June 11, 2024
Personal Injury
C v P (anonymised for confidentiality)
Ben represented the Claimant, a pedestrian in his 60s struck by a car while walking along a country lane, in a £5m+ catastrophic injury claim.
CASES
June 1, 2024
Administration of Estates, Agriculture & Rural Affairs, Disputed Wills, Proprietary Estoppel, Wills & Trusts
Winter v. Winter [2024] 2 FLR 1065; [2025] 2 P&CR 2; [2024] WTLR 1559
One of the leading cases on the meaning of detriment in a proprietary estoppel claim. The Court of Appeal confirmed that any non-financial disadvantage had to be weighed against financial benefit, even where the non-financial disadvantage
CASES
May 16, 2024
Children Private Law
Re H (A Child: Contact: Domestic Abuse) EWCA Civ 326
James Adams represented the child, whose parents had each been found to have perpetrated serious domestic abuse against the other, at a six-day final hearing. Recorder ordered that the child have no direct contact with his
CASES
May 8, 2024
Highways & Rights of Way, Property Damage & Insurance Disputes
Davies v Bridgend County Borough Council [2024] UKSC 15
The Supreme Court has handed down judgment in the case of Davies v Bridgend County Borough Council [2024] UKSC 15. They have overturned the decision of the Court of Appeal that the defendant was responsible for