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Mr. Justice Teare :
This is another dispute as to where claims between parties should be heard. The Claimants wish the claims to be heard in England. The Defendant wishes the claims to be heard in France. The Defendant has issued an application seeking an order that the proceedings issued in England by the Claimants ... |
The Honourable Mr Justice Flaux :
Introduction
The sole director and shareholder of the claimant company is Mr Neville Hendricks. His business and that of the claimant is the production of reality television programmes featuring the real lives of popular show business personalities. Specifically, for some seven years... |
Mr Justice Burton :
This application arises out of the freezing and then the purported termination without notice by the Defendant, S, of its banking relationship with the Claimant, N.
The Claimant is an English company registered with the Financial Conduct Authority as an authorised payment institution under th... |
Mr Justice Burton :
This has been a consolidated hearing of two arbitration claims under ss. 67 and 68 of the Arbitration Act 1996 ("the Act") brought by Stockman Interhold SA as Claimant, represented by Mr James Collins QC and Mr Siddharth Dhar and Arricano Real Estate PLC as Defendant, represented by Mr Matthew Wei... |
Mr Justice Males :
Introduction
On 31 March 2015 a worldwide freezing order was made by Eder J to restrain the Respondents from dealing with their assets until further order. It contained the usual provision permitting payment of a reasonable sum on legal advice and representation:
"This Order does not prohibit eit... |
HHJ WAKSMAN QC:
Introduction.
The 27 claimants in this action are all ex-employees of the first defendant, AIG Management France SA formerly known as Banque AIG, a French company, or in the case of three of them, employees of the second defendant, AIG Financial Products Corp, a Delaware corporation, but who were sec... |
Mr Justice Phillips:
On 4 October 2014 process servers acting on behalf of the claimant ("Mr Tseitline") purported to effect personal service of these proceedings on the first defendant ("Mr Mikhelson"). They first attempted to do so as Mr Mikhelson arrived at the Whitechapel Gallery ("the Gallery") in London, accomp... |
The Honourable Mr Justice Flaux:
Introduction
By an Order dated 5 June 2015 (as varied by an Order dated 9 September 2015), I ordered the trial of the following preliminary issue:
"As at 27 June 2014, before the auction of the Ferrari model 375 Plus Grand Prix Roadster, serial no. 0384AM (the "Car"), did:
(i) Ms S... |
Mr Justice Knowles :
On Tuesday 27 October 2015, after a period of pre-trial reading, I was due to commence the hearing of the trial in this litigation.
In the event, immediately after I entered Court I was informed by Counsel for the Claimant that "in the last five minutes the parties have come to terms." Furthe... |
MR JUSTICE PHILLIPS:
In June 2007 the Claimant, Claverton Holdings Ltd, a property holding company based in the British Virgin Islands, purchased an interest rate swap from its bankers, Barclays. In these proceedings Claverton claims that Barclays mis-sold the swap. It is alleged that two employees of Barclays Capital... |
Mr Justice Knowles:
Introduction
The Defendant provides aircraft maintenance and repair services. The Claimant is the owner of a business jet aircraft of the BAe125/800A model ("the Aircraft").
When the Claimant purchased the Aircraft it was already about 20 years old. On 4 May 2009 the Claimant delivered the Air... |
Mr. Justice Teare :
This is the trial of two actions. In one action an anti-suit injunction is sought in circumstances where one party to a London arbitration agreement wishes to enforce it and another party, despite having agreed to London arbitration, prefers to litigate in another country, in this case China. In t... |
Mr Justice Knowles :
Introduction
The Defendant is one of two Guarantors under a guarantee entered into on 12 September 2008 (the "Guarantee") in favour of The Royal Bank of Scotland ("RBS"). The Guarantors' liability under the Guarantee is joint and several. The Guarantee also contains an indemnity. Pursuant to clau... |
Mr Justice Walker:
[Table of Contents]
A. Introduction 1
B. Background: the documentary record 6
B1. General 6
B2. The time and voyage charters 8
B3. The cargo and the bill of lading 10
B4. The sales, the LOIs and discharge of the cargo 14
B5. The letter of credit and payment under it 17
... |
Mr Justice Burton :
This is an application under s.67 of the Arbitration Act 1996 ("the Act") by the Claimant, Exmek Pharmaceuticals SAC, against an award on jurisdiction dated 3 August 2014 by Mr Natarajan as sole Arbitrator, in which he concluded that he had jurisdiction in an arbitration between the Defendant, Alk... |
Mr Justice Andrew Smith:
The Applications
There are before me applications in seven consolidated actions.
i) By an application notice dated 24 October 2014 the claimants in five of the actions seek permission to amend the claim forms;
ii) By an application notice dated 31 March 2015 the claimants in the same five a... |
Mr Justice Popplewell:
Introduction
The Claimant ("Molton Street") brings a claim as buyer from the Second Defendant ("Odeon") for wrongfully cancelling a contract of sale of junk bonds concluded on 16 June 2014 at a price of 22% of face value. Molton Street had sold the bonds on to Morgan Stanley & Co ("Morgan Stan... |
Mr Justice Burton :
The Claimants (whom I shall call Pearl, Dana and Crescent) and the Respondent, the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq ("KRG") are engaged in arbitration proceedings under the LCIA Rules, commenced in October 2013, in relation to disputes arising out of a contract ("the Heads of Agreement") date... |
Mr. Justice Teare :
This is an appeal from an arbitration award brought with leave pursuant to section 69 of the Arbitration Act 1996. It involves a speed and consumption claim arising out of a time charterparty. Although on such an appeal one would expect there to be a dispute as to the law, there does not appear to... |
MR JUSTICE POPPLEWELL:
On 30 September 2015, Flaux J made an order that all the claims in this action be struck out and judgment be entered for the defendants by reason of the claimants' failure to comply with an unless order that they provide security for costs. The claimants now apply to set aside the order by way ... |
INTRODUCTION
This is an application by the Defendant, AXA Corporate Solutions Assurance ("AXA") a French insurance company, disputing the jurisdiction of the English Court to hear and determine proceedings brought by the Claimant insurance company, XL Insurance Company SE ("XL"), a European insurance compan... |
MR. JUSTICE POPPLEWELL:
On 4th December 2015 I found that the second, third and fourth defendants (respectively "Arex", "ASD" and "Mr. Dogan") were in contempt of court for failures to comply with the disclosure provisions in a freezing order made by Flaux J on 25th June 2015. I adjourned sentence and penalties unti... |
Mr Justice Andrew Smith:
Introduction
The claimant, Galaxy Aviation ("GA"), is a general partnership licensed for business in Ontario, Canada, which was founded on 22 March 2007. Its registered address is 30 Blue Spring Drive, No 509, Waterloo, Ontario (the "Waterloo address"), a residential flat belonging to Capt ... |
Mr Justice Knowles :
Introduction
The Defendants are Cornwall Council ("the Council"), Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Peninsula Community Health CIC. Together, the Defendants entered into a written Service Delivery Agreement ("the Agreement") with BT Cornwall Limited ("BTC") dated 27 March 2013. The De... |
Mr Justice Males :
Introduction
The claimant C&S Associates UK Ltd is a motor insurance claims handler based near Fareham in Hampshire. The defendant Enterprise Insurance Company Plc is an insurance company incorporated in Gibraltar which provides among other things specialist motor insurance for fleet vehicles, taxis... |
Mr Justice Burton :
This hearing arises out of an Arbitration Award by Mr Andrew Foyle, Mr Dominic Kendrick QC and, as Chairman, Dr Georg von Segessor, dated 5 June 2014, by which the Arbitrators concluded that they had no jurisdiction over the claims brought by the First Claimant, Mr Ashot Egiazaryan ("C1"), and th... |
Mr Justice Walker:
A. Introduction
1
B. Events leading to the making of the order
5
C. The 14 December Fiddler order, and reasons
8
C1. The 14 December Fiddler order: general
8
C2. The content of the 14 December ... |
Mr Justice Walker:
A. Introduction 1
B. The main action 5
C. Dr Smith, Dr Cochrane, Pro Vinci and Ms Irving 9
D. The September 2015 application 13
D1. The September 2015 application: general 13
D2. September 2015 application: the allegations 14
D3. September 2015 application: some key features 18
... |
Mr Justice Andrew Smith:
The question for determination is whether the defendants, Agrifert SA, the buyers under a FOB contract of sale, validly nominated a vessel to take delivery of a cargo of maize. They claim that they did so by nominating a substitute vessel, the m/v "Sea Way". The sellers and claimants in... |
MR JUSTICE COOKE: This is an application made by the defendant, Barclays, in respect of a claim brought by Mr Sivagnanam to whom I shall refer as the claimant. The application is to strike out the claim on the basis that there are no reasonable grounds for bringing it or for summary judgment, dismissing it on the bas... |
Mr Justice Cooke:
Introduction
The claimant (Dr Smith) seeks a declaration in this action that the defendant (Mr Huertas) is not entitled to have the judgment of the Cour d'Appel d'Aix-en-Provence of 26th March 2013 (the APCA Judgment) recognised or enforced pursuant to the provisions of the Judgments Regulation on t... |
Mr Justice Popplewell :
This is the trial of the Claimant's claim for the deferred balance of the purchase price payable for quantities of gasoil. The goods were supplied between 21 January 2013 and 25 February 2013 on the basis of a 50 per cent payment in advance and 50 per cent payment within 90 days thereafter. T... |
Master Rowley:
Introduction
This judgment concerns the ability of the claimant and her solicitors to fund her personal injury claim via a Conditional Fee Agreement ("CFA") and After the Event ("ATE") insurance policy without formally discontinuing her existing funding via a Community Legal Services ("CLS") Funding ce... |
Master Campbell, Costs Judge:
This judgment is in 12 Parts namely :-
Part 1. Introduction paras 1 - 2
Part 2. The background paras 3-11
Part 3. The issues para 12
Part 4 The Law paras 13
Part 5 The terms of the retainer letters and irrevocable agreement paras 14-17
Part 6 Level 2 Success paras 18-23
Part 7 ... |
Master Leonard:
This is the assessment, on the standard basis, of the costs of the Claimant as payable by the Defendant under an order of 25 July 2014. The claim was for clinical negligence. The Claimant seeks to recover the cost of an ATE insurance policy in accordance with Section 58C of the Courts and Legal Servi... |
Master Gordon-Saker :
The Claimant is entitled to his costs of a claim for damages for clinical negligence pursuant to an order of Swift J dated 13th February 2015. On the detailed assessment of those costs issues arose as to the proportionality of the costs claimed, the format of the Claimant's bill and the costs of... |
Master Rowley:
This judgment addresses a number of preliminary issues brought in the context of detailed assessment proceedings in respect of the claimant's bill of costs. As with many detailed assessments, the issues of hourly rates, success fees and the ATE premium are important matters here and they are dealt wit... |
This clinical negligence case was proceeding to a ten day split trial on liability only but liability was agreed more than a year before that trial commenced. It was listed for a two day detailed assessment before me but, by the start of the second day the costs to be allowed had been agreed. I am asked now to rule upo... |
THE MASTER: This is the issue about the costs of the detailed assessment.
A bill was originally lodged for approximately £239,000 and the basic fact is that upon a detailed assessment this was reduced to £135,486.90. The claimants claimed their costs of the detailed assessment under 47.20 in that they say that they ha... |
MASTER O'HARE :
The bill in this case relates to a clinical negligence claim which ended pre-issue on the acceptance of the Defendant's offer to settle the claim by paying £3500 plus costs. The bill claimed £32,329.12 and proceeded by way of provisional assessment at which I reduced it on grounds of reasonableness by... |
Introduction
Courtney Ellen Webb, the claimant, was born by vaginal delivery at 17.52hrs on 25 October 1999 at Liverpool Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the defendant. She was born following an induced labour. She sustained a right brachial plexus injury (BPI) during the birth process caused by shoulder dysto... |
Mr Justice Males :
Introduction
The claimant is a former undercover police officer and the defendant is the Chief Constable of the force of which he was a member. The case concerns a claim for damages for psychiatric injury in the form of an adjustment disorder. The claimant complains that his adjustment disorder ari... |
Mr Justice Warby :
Introduction
This is the trial of a claim by the claimants, ("Ali" and "Almaghir"), who are brothers and art and antique dealers, for an injunction pursuant to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. The claim is brought against five defendants but, as will appear from what follows, the claims hav... |
Mr Justice Warby:
Introduction
This is a case about spam, which for present purposes is adequately defined as unwanted email sent in bulk. It can also be described as the internet version of junk mail.
The claimants are two entrepreneurs, one ("Mr Ames") an Australian citizen and the other ("Mr McGee") a citizen... |
Michael Bowes QC :
Introduction
In this case Mr Abimbola Balogun ("the Claimant") claims against Boyes Sutton & Perry, a firm of solicitors ("the Defendant") for damages for professional negligence and/ or breach of contract in respect of an implied term to exercise reasonable care and skill in connection with his a... |
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HIS HONOUR JUDGE COLLENDER QC INTRODUCTION
This is a claim for damages for personal injuries and consequential loss arising out of an accident suffered by the Claimant on 1 December 2010. On that day, the Claimant was engaged in his business, together with some of his employees, in the pr... |
Mr Justice Supperstone :
Introduction
There are three appeals before the court which raise the same point of law, namely whether the fixed success fee regime in (pre- 1 April 2013) CPR Part 45 Section IV applies to claims brought by members of the armed forces in respect of injuries suffered at work. I understand th... |
Wednesday 14th January 2015
MR JUSTICE BLAKE:
This is an appeal from a decision of his Honour Judge Armitage QC sitting at the Manchester County Court delivered on 17 July 2014. On that occasion the judge declined to continue an injunction granted without notice on 4 April 2014 by his Honour Judge Platts. The inju... |
Mr Justice Hamblen :
Introduction
On 6 June 2012 a Sikorsky S58-ET helicopter operated by a Peruvian company, HeliCusco, crashed at an altitude of some 16,026 ft above mean sea level into a mountain known as 'Mama Rosa' in the Andes mountain range in Peru. The helicopter disintegrated and caught fire, killing all... |
Mrs Justice Andrews:
This claim arises out of a decision by the First Defendant ("HMT") and the Second Defendants ("HMRC") that the new government policy of tax-free childcare ("TFC") should be delivered by HMT and HMRC working with the Third Defendant ("NS&I"). It is not the policy itself, but the mechanism for its... |
HIS HONOUR JUDGE SIMON BROWN:
The judgment having been handed down, the Claimant seeks five orders.
i) David Osmond be joined as a Defendant for the purpose of determining liability for costs;
ii) The Defendants pay the costs of the claim to be assessed if not agreed;
iii) The Claimant's approved costs budget be ... |
Mr Justice Warby:
Introduction
This is a claim for injunctions and other orders in respect of various valuable items which were until 16 December 2014 kept at 3 West Heath Avenue London NW11, the home of the second claimant, Shoshana Stern, and her husband William Stern. On that date the goods were seized and taken a... |
Her Honour Judge Coe QC:
This is a claim for damages brought on behalf of the Claimant Mrs Michelle Hayes and her three sons as well as on behalf of the estate of her former husband Mr Paul Hayes. The claim is made pursuant to the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1934 (as amended) and the Fatal Accidents Act... |
MR JUSTICE KNOWLES:
This is an appeal, I remind myself of that fact, and it is an appeal on a case management issue. I remind myself of the approach to an appeal of that nature as well.
I fully support the efforts of the learned Judge to address the proportionality of the programming of this case towards trial. ... |
Mr Justice Leggatt :
Introduction
An important question which needs to be resolved in the Iraqi Civilian Litigation is whether claims have been brought in time or whether they are barred by an applicable statute of limitation. This judgment follows the trial of a short but significant set of preliminary issues to de... |
Mr Justice Irwin :
Introduction
After the fall of Colonel Qadhafi in October 2011, the offices of his security services were searched and quantities of documents discovered. The Claimants are of Libyan origin, save for Claimant 5 who is the widow of a Libyan. These claims are derived from the documents discovered. ... |
Mr Justice Warby:
On the afternoon of 22 January 2015 I heard an application for an injunction to restrain harassment by persons unknown of Katherine Kerner and her son Jack, aged 9, in various ways including by publication. The application was made by Mr Lawson-Cruttenden on what was described as an emergency basis... |
Mr Justice Warby:
This is the return date of the injunction I granted upon the claimant's application of 22 January 2015, to restrain persons unknown from harassing her and her son. The background and reasons for granting that injunction are set out in the judgment I handed down on of 27 January 2015, [2015] EWHC 128... |
MR. JUSTICE MITTING :
On 28th March 2008, a prostitute took video footage of the claimant on a concealed camera provided to her by a News of the World journalist while he was engaged in private sexual activity in a flat in Chelsea. Still images from the footage were published prominently in the News of the World news... |
Sir David Eady :
Introduction
The Claimants seek to have the First Defendant, Mr Jay Tiernan, committed for contempt of court and they rely upon nine alleged breaches of an interim injunction, which was originally granted by Turner J on 22 August 2013, and then continued by Popplewell J in the same terms on 5 Septemb... |
MR JUSTICE KNOWLES :
Introduction
Dr Raminder Ranger is described in the evidence as the founder and chairman of one of the UK's most successful export companies. His businesses have received The Queen's Awards for Enterprise in connection with their international trade. He has received the honour of the award of MBE... |
Mr Justice Nicol :
This is an application by the Claimant for an injunction to restrain the Defendant from continuing with a disciplinary hearing against him. The disciplinary hearing began on 27th January 2015. The application before me was heard on 28th January 2015. Although formally ex parte, the Defendant was n... |
Mr. Justice Edis:
This is a claim for damages for negligence and breach of statutory duty brought by the Claimant who was the Managing Director of a company called Taylor and Sons Limited ("the Company"). The Company went into Administration on 9th April 2009 and the Administrators assigned any cause of action it ma... |
MR JUSTICE WARBY:
On 19 January 2015 I tried the preliminary issue of what defamatory meanings were borne by the words complained of in this action, and heard the claimant's application to strike out the plea of justification, and the defendant's cross-application for permission to amend that plea. I handed down jud... |
MR JUSTICE WARBY :
The claimant is a Premier League footballer. He sues the defendant for libel in articles published in the Daily Mirror for 16 November 2012, and on the defendant's website www.mirror.co.uk from that date onwards.
The nature of the hard copy article is indicated by the text of the taster that a... |
Mr Justice Warby :
This is an action for libel in which the claimant complains that the defendant libelled him in four publications: a blog post written by her on the website of the Moscow-based radio station Echo Moscow, two articles quoting her that appeared on the website of the Russian online newspaper gazeta.ru,... |
Mr. Justice Globe :
Introduction
The claimants are each employed by one of seven individual bargaining units (agencies) for which the defendant is responsible:
First claimant – Department for Transport (Centre) (DfT(C))
Second claimant – Driving Standards Agency (DSA)
Third claimant – Driving and Vehicle Licensi... |
Mrs Justice Swift DBE :
INTRODUCTION
This is a clinical negligence claim by the Claimant, a child and Protected Party, who acts by his mother and Litigation Friend, KT. The claim concerns events which occurred at the Defendant's Pembury Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, during the period between 24 and 27 November 2004, wh... |
THE HONOURABLE MRS JUSTICE ELISABETH LAING
Introduction
This is a claim for damages for serious brain injuries which the Claimant ("Eva") suffered during her delivery at King's College Hospital on 4 October 2007. The Defendant ("the Trust") has accepted liability for those injuries. Eva and the Trust have also agreed ... |
INTRODUCTION
This is a claim for damages for personal injuries and consequential loss brought by Mr Graeme Wake, the father and litigation friend of the Claimant, Ethan, who is a young child.
On the evening of 1 January 2010, Ethan, then being unwell, was taken by his parents to the Defendant, Dr Johnson, a Gene... |
Judge Mackie QC :
This fire insurance claim by the Claimant is resisted by the Defendant on the grounds that the assured had no insurable interest and that there was misrepresentation and non disclosure. The Defendant also claims that if the Claimant does have a valid claim it should not have a Declaration that it is... |
Mr. Justice Cranston
Introduction
This is an application for leave to appeal against the judgment of Recorder Jack ("the judge") sitting in the Derby County Court on 1 July 2014, in which he dismissed the claim by Afzal Ahmed ("the appellant") arising out of a road traffic accident. The second respondent opposes the... |
MRS JUSTICE ELISABETH LAING
Introduction
This is a claim by Mr Talib Al-Mishlab ("the Claimant") for breach of contract against his employer, Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ("the Trust"). The Claimant has been employed as a consultant since 2002 and has held a substantive consultant post with the Trust... |
HHJ Brian C Forster QC:
The claim
By a claim dated 28 September 2012 the Claimant claims damages for pain, injury, loss and damage arising out of his medical treatment at the Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham, Kent.
The Claimant was born on 9 June 1958 and is now 56 years of age.
He suffers from the unusual ... |
Mr Justice Warby:
This is the pre-trial review of this action for libel, and the hearing of applications for the defendants by which they seek to cut down the issues for trial by means of orders striking out allegations and/or granting judgment on certain issues, and providing for the trial of preliminary issues.
... |
His Honour Judge McKenna Introduction
This is the hearing of an appeal against the order of District Judge Shorthose dated 13th October 2014 striking out the Appellants' claim for damages against the Defendant, the Secretary of State for Justice ("Secretary of State") under the Human Rights Act 1998 ("HRA 1998") in re... |
Mr Justice William Davis:
This is a claim for damages for breach of contract; alternatively restitution of benefit received. I shall set out the detail of the claim and the history of the proceedings hereafter. The case is listed for a five-day trial. It was due to commence yesterday (18th February 2015). It did ... |
Mr Justice Dove :
Introduction
This case concerns the arrangements made for the recovery of vehicles in the defendant's police area. There are two actions before me. The first action relates to the termination of a contract between the claimant and the defendant for the recovery of vehicles on the defendant's behalf.... |
Mr Justice Jeremy Baker:
This case concerns a claim for damages arising out of a fatal road traffic accident by which the claimant, who is the widow of the deceased Kenan Dursan, brings an action against the defendant on behalf of his estate and dependants.
The accident occurred at about 17.39 on the 23rd of Dece... |
Mr Justice Warby:
INTRODUCTION
The claimant, Ayla Ellison, was born at Furness General Hospital, Barrow, Cumbria on 11 April 2007. As a result of a severe feto-maternal haemorrhage before her delivery she suffered hypoxic ischaemic injury. This has led to severe quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy, with profound ph... |
Mr Justice Hickinbottom:
Introduction
Following a five-day hearing, on 18 February 2014 in the Crown Court at Cardiff, prior to arraignment, I dismissed the single charge of conspiracy to defraud on which the Serious Fraud Office ("the SFO") sought to try the six Applicants (now reported as R v Evans and Others [2014]... |
Introduction
This is the review of a minimum term imposed on a person convicted of murder who was under 18 at the time of the offence and who was sentenced to detention during Her Majesty's pleasure. The House of Lords in R (Smith) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2005] UKHL 51; [2006] 1 AC 159 [16], he... |
Mr. Justice Edis:
This claim arises out of an incident which occurred on the 15th August 2010 at around 0145 outside McDonalds on the corner of Kentish Town Road and Holmes Road, London. As a result of the incident, the claimant sustained very serious injuries. This is the trial of liability only and it is not nece... |
Mr Justice Hickinbottom :
Introduction
On 16 February 2015, I handed down judgment on liability in this claim, finding both Defendants liable to the Claimant in the following proportions as between themselves: the First Defendant Dr Mills 30%, and the Second Defendant the Football Club 70%. The parties asked for tim... |
Mr Justice Hickinbottom :
Introduction
On 1 August 2006, the Claimant Radwan Hamed, then aged 17, signed on professional terms with the Second Defendant, Tottenham Hotspur Football Club ("the Club"). He was an extremely gifted and dedicated footballer, who had been associated with the Club since the age of 11. It w... |
Mr Justice Hickinbottom :
Introduction
The Claimant Peter Hogg was born at the London Hospital, Whitechapel, on 18 February 1986.
He has been diagnosed with septo-optic dysplasia ("SOD") with structural brain abnormalities, visual defects, anterior and posterior pituitary deficiencies with resultant diabetes ins... |
Sweeney J:
Introduction
In October 2013 the Claimant/Respondent (hereafter "the Respondent"), a social housing provider with charitable status, began a possession claim in the Chelmsford County Court against the Defendant/Appellant (hereafter "the Appellant") who is one of its tenants. On 28 April 2014 the Responden... |
JUDGE RICHARD SEYMOUR QC:
Introduction
This action arises out of another action ("the Original Action") which proceeded in the Cardiff District Registry of this court with the claim number 0CF90132. In the Original Action the claimant was a company called Consortium Hotels & Inns Business Services Ltd. ("Consortium").... |
Para
Introduction 1
Law
Bias 13
The Claimant's case on bias 22
The causes of action 24
British Coal Respiratory Disease Litigation (BCRDL) 42
Scheme costs 50
Thompsons 66
The investigation of Raleys by the Law Society 75
The Sunday Times article of 16 January 2005 and Sir Michael Turner's request for inf... |
MR JUSTICE SIMON: The defendants' solicitors seek relief against sanctions in relation to an obligation that arises under CPR 44.15(2) in these terms:
"A party who seeks to recover an additional liability must provide information about the funding arrangements to the court and to other parties as required by the rul... |
MR JUSTICE BAKER:
This costs appeal arises out of personal injury litigation conducted by the respondent claimant against the appellant defendant. The respondent was employed by the appellant for a period of over 30 years between 1977 and 2011. At the commencement of this period she was employed as a secretary whi... |
MR SIMON PICKEN QC:
Introduction
This dispute arises out of a property development which did not achieve what had been hoped for it. That much is common ground between the parties, although not much else is. On the contrary, this is a case in which there are a substantial number of hotly contested issues, not least w... |
His Honour Judge Bidder QC :
This is the hearing of liability in an action for damages for personal injury arising out of an accident on the 2nd April 2009 when the Claimant, born on the 10th October 1969 and so 39 at the accident and now 45, fell from a wall at the Defendant's North Ealing Hospital. He fell some 30... |
The Hon Mr Justice Turner:
Judgment on Costs
INTRODUCTION
In this case, the claimants lost for reasons set out in the judgment to be found at Laporte and another v The Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis [2014] EWHC 3574 (QB). They assert, however, that there should be no order for costs because the defendan... |
MR SALTER QC:
Introduction
This is an application to continue an injunction, originally granted by Patterson J on 2 January 2015, to enforce certain of the post-termination restrictive covenants and covenants relating to confidential information in what is alleged by the claimant ("Harpur") to be the contract of empl... |
HHJ Richard Parkes QC :
On 28 January 2015 I struck out the Claimant's claim on the application of the First and Third Defendants, with costs. These are my reasons for making that order.
The application was made by the UK trading arm of the retailer Primark, Primark Stores Limited ('Primark'), which is the first d... |
Sir Robert Nelson :
On 27 April 2009 the Claimant, then aged 57, suffered a stroke. This was caused by the condition of infective endocarditis from which the Claimant had been suffering, and which had remained undiagnosed. She claims that had the three Defendants, General Practitioners at the West Street Surgery, Chi... |
Mr Justice Green :
Index
A. The issue 1
B. Introduction 2-9
C. The claim 10-14
D. The relevant facts 15-30
(1) The onset of symptoms 15-16
(2) 11th January 2010: The first visit to A&E 17-
(i) The ambulance call out 17-19
(ii) The ambulance records 20-22
(iii) Triage by... |
RICHARD PARKES QC :
INTRODUCTION
In this libel action, the claimant is Mr Akbar Singh Rai, a man of 61 and a practising adherent of the Sikh religion, who is married with three children and six grandchildren. He came to the UK in 1966 from the Punjab, and since arriving here has been a member of the congregation of t... |
INTRODUCTION
In this libel action, the claimant is Mr Akbar Singh Rai, a man of 61 and a practising adherent of the Sikh religion, who is married with three children and six grandchildren. He came to the UK in 1966 from the Punjab, and since arriving here has been a member of the congregation of the Sikh temple, or gu... |
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