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From garage to unicorn – Employment law lessons for scaling tech teams
Catherine Bourne
27 October 2015
Fun and games, but not a sport - judicial review action determines bridge’s status
The courts appear to have intervened in the age old discussion as the English Bridge Union (“the Union”) lost its fight against Sport England in the High Court recently.
26 October 2015
Requiring possession: 'Ejectment'
An image called “The Ejectment” was published in the “Illustrated London Times” on 16 December 1848. It shows a despondent farmer’s wife pleading with a rotund gentleman who is on a horse wearing a shiny top hat. Men are removing items from the thatched cottage and rolling up the roof itself. Some soldiers look on, seemingly chatting nonchalantly to a passer-by while the tenant farmers plead with the overlord for mercy.
26 October 2015
How to make Litigation simpler and more cost effective
The Court has recently implemented the “Shorter and Flexible Trial Schemes” to make business litigation more expeditious, simpler and more cost effective. These Schemes will be piloted for two years from October 2015 in the Commercial Court, the Technology and Construction Court, the Chancery Division and the London Mercantile Court. A new Practice Direction – 51N – spells out these Schemes.
22 October 2015
SFO is Failing the Victims of Fraud
Earlier this week The Times reported that “Fraud victims are being '"badly served'" by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which only recovered £1.3 million in compensation last year - despite UK fraud losses of £717 million..”
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”).
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