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WEBINAR: The Upcoming Whiplash Reforms: What you need to know, and what we don’t yet know
Date: 11 May 2021 @ 16:30 Duration: 50 minutes Presenter: Peter Savory The Civil Liability Act 2018 and associated Whiplash Reforms come into force on 31 May 2021. Said to be a reaction to the increasing number and cost of whiplash claims, the new rules have been a long time coming. Peter Savory examines the […]
read moreFarrar’s Building Welcomes Leslie Millin
We are delighted to announce that Leslie Millin has joined the team here at Farrar’s Building. Leslie specialises in all aspects of employment law, acting on behalf of either the Claimant or the Respondent, in the Employment Tribunal, the Employment Appeal Tribunal and the Court of Appeal. She also specialises in inquests and personal injury […]
read moreWEBINAR: Limitation in Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Claims
Date: 27 April 2021 @ 16:30 Duration: 1 hour Presenters: John Brown & Lauren Jones In this webinar, intended to assist practitioners in the fields of both personal injury and clinical negligence acting for claimants and defendants, we review the legal principles and common issues surrounding limitation. The webinar deals with the law on limitation, […]
read moreTom Emslie-Smith successful for the Claimant in a coronavirus related unfair dismissal case
Shortly after the government coronavirus restrictions of March 2020, Tom’s client was asked by his employer to travel into his workplace in Central London to return the keys to the shop. He refused on the basis that he considered this to be a breach of government guidelines and that he was at risk of getting […]
read moreWEBINAR: Chronic Pain: Insights into Medicine, Case Law and Tactics
Date: 13 April 2021 @ 16:30 Duration: 1 hour Presenters: James Pretsell & Laura Fitzgibbon In this webinar suitable for practitioners from the newly qualified to the highly experienced, James Pretsell and Laura Fitzgibbon offer analysis of and practical insight into the seemingly ever growing, developing and complex area of chronic pain cases. The problems posed by the nature of the medical condition, its […]
read moreGeoffrey Williams QC avoids striking off for Solicitor found to have been dishonest
Geoffrey acted for a Solicitor (“SO”) in proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal in which three allegations of dishonesty were made. Essentially it was alleged that SO had provided misleading information to her supervisor at her firm concerning receipt of notification of a preliminary hearing before the Employment Tribunal and had gone on to provide […]
read moreECJ further limits scope of Package Travel Regulations defences (Case C‑578/19 X v Kuoni Travel Ltd [2021])
Frederick Lyon previously summarised the case of X v Kuoni [2019] UKSC 37 when the Supreme Court sent its reference to the ECJ, and for the full background, that excellent precis can be read here: https://www.farrarsbuilding.co.uk/knowledge-base/frederick-lyon-x-v-kuoni-now-more-a-risk-to-defendants-than-claimants/ By way of brief reminder; i) The case arose following a holidaymaker being raped by an electrician working as […]
read moreFundamental Dishonesty: To plead, or not to plead? That is the question.
On Friday, 12th April 2021, Master Davison handed down a reserved judgment in the case of Mustard v Flowers & Ors [2021] EWHC 846 (QB). The judgment provides useful guidance on the appropriateness of a speculative and/or contingent pleading of fundamental dishonesty in a defence. Facts The case concerned a road traffic accident. The Claimant’s […]
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