‘I know because Jackson LJ told us so… and he knows because he effectively designed it and I witnessed it myself once or twice (but not when I was sitting, of course),’ he writes. Gold illustrates his point with a case of two taxi drivers.
Gold also covers ‘failure to remove’ claims against social services, referring to two recent cases. He reminds lawyers that ‘claimants must identify for what it is alleged the defendant has assumed responsibility, the facts relied on as establishing the assumption of responsibility and the dates the alleged duty arose and, if relevant, the periods during which it was owed’.
Finally, Gold takes a look at the rapidly developing evolving (due to U-turns and interest rate hikes) fields of capital gain tax and Court Funds Office’s rates.
