Date: 10 February 2021 @ 16:00 Duration: 45 minutes Presenters: John Meredith-Hardy In June 2020, our webinar focussed on what litigation arising out of Covid may look like and what Personal Injury lawyers on both sides could do, to position themselves optimally in response. Eight months on, the latest instalment of the Farrar’s Building webinar series, reviews where we are now […]
read moreOn 2nd February, Minister for Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Patient Safety, Nadine Dorries MP, and NHS England maternity leaders spoke with Parliament’s Health and Social Care Committee as part of their inquiry into safety of maternity services in England. Ms Dorries said the Government would undertake ‘intensive’ work on reshaping the system of compensation […]
read moreIn the first Trial since his horrendous car accident in January 2020, Patrick Harrington QC prosecuted Tomas Carney on the murder of pensioner Mr Phillips, his AA sponsor. On 11 January 2021, Mr Harrington QC opened his speech by telling the jury at Swansea Crown Court: “Ladies and gentlemen, this is murder. Tomas Carney deliberately […]
read moreWorld Rugby has announced the re-appointment of Christopher Quinlan QC as Independent Judicial Panel Chairman for another four-year term. https://www.world.rugby/news/607288/christopher-quinlan-extends-independent-judicial-panel-chairman-role
read moreAidan O’Brien has been appointed as a judicial officer by World Rugby. He will chair disciplinary hearings arising from international test matches. Aidan also sits as a Judicial Chairman for the RFU, adjudicating on disciplinary and competition appeals arising from levels 1-4 of the game (Premiership, Championship and National Leagues 1 & 2).
read moreValuations of claims for general damages for breaches of the GDPR are tricky, not least because of the absence of a large body of higher court authority. However, it is possible to discern through authorities the general approach adopted by the courts. Summarised below by Huw Davies and Leonard Wigg of Farrar’s Building, are some […]
read moreFrom January 2021, John Brown will sit in London as a Rugby Football Union Judicial Panel Member at disciplinary hearings involving both on and off-field conduct at Levels 1-5 of the game. Click here to read more about John’s practice.
read moreIn Head v The Culver Heating Co Limited [2021] EWCA Civ 34 the Court of Appeal has clarified the approach to claims for ‘lost years’ loss of earnings from a business owned and operated by the claimant. The Court held that the substance of earnings mattered over their form such that dividend income was, on […]
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