Litigants will have noted the recent toughening of the judicial approach to compliance with directions and case management orders. However, a High Court decision has underlined that a slavish deference to deadlines can itself cause
A local authority that ‘diced with procedural death’ after launching proceedings against allegedly negligent architects hard up against the expiry of the relevant limitation period has had its substantial claim struck out by the Technology
Whilst it might be tempting to pick up a ‘knock off’ of a luxury brand item from an overseas website (and some sites make the fact that they goods they sell are not genuine –
In a case which gives useful guidance on the limitations of the scope of the equality duties owed by public authorities, a disability campaigner, who said that she would be effectively exiled from Colchester’s main
In a sad example of a family-orientated corporate structure proving anything but a panacea, the High Court has ordered the winding up of a farming company due to the inability of its directors – three
A couple who waged a ‘campaign of visceral vilification’ against an elderly neighbour who defied them in a dispute over a right of way and a 12-inch-wide strip of garden have been ordered to pay
In a decision which raised interesting issues in respect of quantification of damages and mitigation of loss in negligent workmanship cases, the High Court has, subject to liability, ruled that the owners of a damaged
In a ringing warning that neither the insurance industry nor the courts will put up with exaggerated compensation claims, a cyclist who fraudulently sought more than £3 million in damages by ‘telling a pack of
In a telling example of friendship not forming a sound basis for financial dealings, a retired pharmacist who lost $1.75 million when a neighbour and fellow golf club member inadvertently delivered him into the arms
In a case which reveals that relative corporate minnows can succeed in upholding their intellectual property rights against much larger companies, the High Court has ruled that the giant Hollywood studio behind the hit television
