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Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 - the end of fault based divorce is in sight
Stacey Nevin
8 August 2013
Image Rights - big business in sport
Image Rights can be lucrative, and for some sports personalities and clubs, the most valuable source of revenue. However, unlike in some countries, the UK has no recognised or defined legal right in law for a person to protect their image. As a result, sportsmen and their clubs frequently seek to use other legal tools to exploit Image Rights.
31 July 2013
Defamation & Malicious Falsehood – discussing the Peter Cruddas case - part 1
Katherine Pymont looks into the detail at the Peter Cruddas defamation and malicious falsehood case.
19 July 2013
Interest rate swaps: potential causes of action in misselling claims
Interest rate swap misselling claims have increasingly become another key battleground area in financial services litigation against banks. However, succeeding in such claims has so far proved difficult for claimants and the recent reported cases that have gone before the Courts will have given the banks confidence in defending such claims. In a recent blog 'Claims against banks – your 10 point guide' we examined a number of issues which you should consider before bringing a claim against a bank in relation to the misselling of an interest rate hedging product or other financial product.
3 July 2013
Case Update: High Court strikes out claim for defamation where likely damages were “not worth” pursuing
In the recent case of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC v (1) Aviation News Ltd (2) Philip Tozer-Pennington [2013] EWHC 1505 (QB) the High Court refused to allow the claimant permission to amend the particulars of claim, and struck out the action on the grounds that any likely damages were not worth the expenditure that would be involved if the action were to proceed.
24 June 2013
Claims against banks – your 10 point guide
There are a vast number of individuals and business considering whether to litigate against banks in the wake of the global financial crisis. Before starting any such action, it would be wise to weigh up the following issues...
- Alternative dispute resolution
- Claims against banks
- Cross-border litigation
- Defamation, privacy & reputation
- Fraud
- Harassment
- Image rights
- Wills, trusts and inheritance disputes
- Intellectual property claims
- Legal updates
- Litigation process
- Professional negligence
- Property litigation
- Costs Law
- Shareholder and Boardroom Disputes