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Monthly Archives: November 2020
Business Interruption Insurance: The Supreme Court Considers the Decision in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and others
The appeal against the High Court decision in Financial Conduct Authority v Arch Insurance (UK) Ltd and others [2020] EWHC 2448 (Comm) was heard by the Supreme Court last week from 16th November 2020 before Lords Reed, Hodge, Briggs, Hamblen and Leggat, and lasted four days. Background On 15th September 2020, judgment in the landmark […]
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WEBINAR: CPR Update 2019 – 2020
Date: 24 November 2020 @ 16:30 Duration: 1 hour Presenters: David Roderick In the latest instalment of the Farrar’s Building Webinar Series, we identify the most important recent changes to civil procedure and practice, and the development of tactically useful CPR case law throughout the key stages of a claim. For a recording of the […]
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Civil Standard of Proof Applies to Inquest Conclusions of Suicide and Unlawful Killing, Supreme Court Rules.
The Supreme Court last week handed down its much-awaited judgment in R (on the application of Maughan) v Her Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Oxfordshire [2020] UKSC 46. By a 3-2 majority, the Court held that in inquests the civil standard of proof applies to all short-form and narrative conclusions of suicide. The civil standard should […]
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Gray v Thames Trains survives Patel v Mirza
Henderson v Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust [2020] UKSC 43 In Gray v Thames Trains Ltd [2009] UKHL 33, the House of Lords considered the case of a claimant who had killed a man whilst suffering from PTSD. It was held that he could not recover damages against the person who had caused the […]
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WEBINAR: Secondary Victims – ‘thus far and no further’ – the road to and from Paul v Wolverhampton
Date: 10 November 2020 @ 16:30 Duration: 1 hour Presenters: Michael Dougherty In the latest instalment of the Farrar’s Building webinar series, we review the secondary victim control mechanisms in Paul v Wolverhampton and the respective decisions of Master Cook and Chamberlain J. We analyse key factors and discuss which decision to prefer and which […]
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