Keith Patten

Solicitor & law teacher

Keith Patten, solicitor, Thompsons Solicitors, and law teacher at Newcastle Law School. (keithpatten@thompsons.law.co.uk: www.thompsons.law.co.uk)

Solicitor & law teacher

Keith Patten, solicitor, Thompsons Solicitors, and law teacher at Newcastle Law School. (keithpatten@thompsons.law.co.uk: www.thompsons.law.co.uk)

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Keith Patten welcomes useful guidance about the role of foreseeability in the determination of breach of duty of care

Keith Patten investigates the complex area of law surrounding statutory employment & common law negligence

Keith Patten supports the quest for coherence in personal injury law

The law in relation to secondary psychiatric injury is almost universally accepted to be a mess, says Keith Patten

Removing liability for health & safety regulation breaches would take us back to the 19th century, says Keith Patten

Keith Patten considers the liability of the police

How should the courts apply the Manual Handling Operations Regulations, asks Keith Patten

Eighty years on, Keith Patten traces the legacy of Donoghue v Stevenson

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London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Fieldfisher partner appointed president as LSLA marks milestone year

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Firm promotes two lawyers to partnership across employment and family

Foot Anstey—five promotions

Firm promotes five lawyers to partnership across key growth areas

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NLJ this week: Divorce ‘nuclear weapon’ freezes assets but entangles outsiders

Freezing orders in divorce proceedings can unexpectedly ensnare third parties and disrupt businesses. In NLJ this week, Lucy James of Trowers & Hamlins explains how these orders—dubbed a ‘nuclear weapon’—preserve assets but can extend far beyond spouses to companies and business partners

NLJ this week: What counts as ‘rent’? Court says labour alone won’t do

A Court of Appeal ruling has clarified that ‘rent’ must be monetary—excluding tenants paid in labour from statutory protection. In this week's NLJ, James Naylor explains Garraway v Phillips, where a tenant worked two days a week instead of paying rent

Your magistrates’ court needs you!

Thousands more magistrates are to be recruited, under a major shake-up to speed up and expand the hiring process

NLJ this week: Freed but failed—justice system leaves the innocent empty-handed

Three men wrongly imprisoned for a combined 77 years have been released—yet received ‘not a penny’ in compensation, exposing deep flaws in the justice system. Writing in NLJ this week, Dr Jon Robins reports on Justin Plummer, Oliver Campbell and Peter Sullivan, whose convictions collapsed amid discredited forensics, ‘oppressive’ police interviews and unreliable ‘cell confessions’

NLJ this week: Clarity on whistleblowing, settlements and tribunal limits

A quiet month for employment cases still delivers key legal clarifications. In his latest Employment Law Brief for NLJ, Ian Smith reports that whistleblowing protection remains intact even where disclosures are partly self-serving, provided the worker reasonably believes they serve the ‘public interest’

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Keith Patten

MOVERS & SHAKERS

London Solicitors Litigation Association—John McElroy

Kingsley Napley—Kirsty Churm & Olivia Stiles

Foot Anstey—five promotions