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Kingsley Napley’s Medical Negligence Team ‘walks together’ with the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity
Sharon Burkill
11 February 2016
Legal update: football club defends appeal case on the pitch
Gartell & Son v Yeovil Town Football & Athletic Club Ltd [2016] EWCA Civ 62
The Appellant – a partnership specialising in ground works to sports fields – appealed a decision of the Court firstly to dismiss its claim for payment under a contract with the Respondent football club and secondly to allow the Respondent’s entire counterclaim.
13 November 2015
Legal update: a cautionary tale to claimants when deciding who to issue a claim against
Camille Saskia Richardson v Facebook; Camille Saskia Richardson v Google (UK) LTD (2015) EWHC 3154 (QB).
The claimant had sought damages for defamation and breach of her right to privacy in respect of two publications on a Facebook profile and Google blog page respectively.
22 October 2015
Legal update: Limitation periods - knowledge of negligence may not be sufficient to start the clock
The case of Blakemores LDP v Scott & Anor [2015] EWCA Civ 999 concerned villagers from Ireby (“the Appellants”) who instructed a firm of solicitors, Blakemores LDP (“Blakemores”) to assist with matters surrounding two Land Registry titles relating to the Lordship of the Manor of Ireby (“the Lordship title”) and 360 acres of moorland overlooking the village (“the Ireby Fell title”).
21 July 2015
What does “jurisdiction” mean?
“Jurisdiction” is generally thought to mean “territory”, but a recent case shows that it actually has a wider and, in this case, potentially more costly, meaning.
17 July 2015
Legal Update: a warning against taking “unreasonable advantage” of late filing
In the recent case of VIRIDOR WASTE MANAGEMENT LTD v VEOLIA ES LTD (2015), a factually modest unjust enrichment claim concerning non-taxable waste, developed into a legal battle over one of the most topical issues in the legal profession: the late filing of pleadings a post-Mitchell civil proceedings.
