Damages
Swift v Carpenter (Personal Injuries Bar Association intervening) [2020] EWCA Civ 1295, [2020] All ER (D) 66 (Oct)
In allowing the appellant’s appeal against a damages order which awarded her nothing in respect of the cost of purchasing a more expensive new home, which was necessitated by her significant injuries following a motor vehicle accident, the Court of Appeal, Civil Division, found that the approach for calculating those damages set out in Roberts v Johnstone [1989] QB 878 no longer achieved fair and reasonable compensation for injured claimants. The court instead took a new approach to calculating the damages to be awarded to the appellant for the cost of purchasing her new home.
European Union
Groupe Lactalis v Premier ministre and others C-485/18, [2020] All ER (D) 78 (Oct)
Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 should be interpreted as meaning that the mandatory indication of the country of origin or place of provenance of milk or milk used as an ingredient had to be regarded as a ‘matter specifically
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