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Recent Cases

  • 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