header-logo header-logo

Civil way: 26 July 2019

25 July 2019
Issue: 7850 / Categories: Features , Procedure & practice , Civil way
printer mail-detail

Mum’s the word; fare to Norwich: who pays; back pockets redundant; 109th CPR update; fee feast for fleas.

 

KEEPING SCHTUM

It’s alright. It’s relatively safe not to alert the claimant to their ineffective service of the claim from and wait for its expiry. That was the majority decision of the Supreme Court in Barton v Wright Hassall LLP [2018] UKSC 12 on which we reported in NLJ 13 April 2018, p15 and dipped into a subsequent case in which Master Bowles was against the mute solicitors. That subsequent case has just reached the Court of Appeal as Woodward and another v Phoenix Healthcare Distribution Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 985 in which it was held that the facts of Barton were all but indistinguishable from those in Woodward. The claim form expired on 19 and the claim became time barred from 20 October 2017. Collyer Bristow LLP first-class posted the claim form to the defendant’s solicitors Mills & Reeve LLP on 17 October 2017 and emailed it to them on the same

If you are not a subscriber, subscribe now to read this content
If you are already a subscriber sign in
...or Register for two weeks' free access to subscriber content

MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

NEWS
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Artificial intelligence may be revolutionising the law, but its misuse could wreck cases and careers, warns Clare Arthurs of Penningtons Manches Cooper in this week's NLJ
Small law firms want to embrace technology but feel lost in a maze of jargon, costs and compliance fears, writes Aisling O’Connell of the Solicitors Regulation Authority in this week's NLJ
Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Rylatt and Robyn Laye of Anthony Gold Solicitors examine recent international relocation cases where allegations of domestic abuse shaped outcomes
back-to-top-scroll