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NLJ this week: The insider—judges divided

25 March 2022
Issue: 7972 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Costs , In Court
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Judgments good, bad, ‘breathtaking’ & divided

Writing in this week’s NLJ, Professor Dominic Regan hails an ‘exquisite’ judgment by Lord Justice Birss, in which the Court of Appeal found in favour of a couple who, after losing their life savings to fraudsters, sued their bank.

Regan, NLJ columnist & City University Law School professor, writes: ‘The clarity with which he set out the underlying law was breathtaking.

‘His judgment would be a splendid instrument to support an application by him to join the Supreme Court.’

However, Regan expresses dismay at a recent multi-pronged Supreme Court decision, and laments an abandoned hearing in the much-anticipated case of Belsner, which relates to solicitors’ fees. 



Issue: 7972 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Costs , In Court
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