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11 July 2014
Issue: 7614 / Categories: Case law , Law reports , In Court
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Practice—Civil litigation—Relief from sanction

Denton and others v TH White Ltd and another; Decadent Vapours Ltd v Bevan and others; Utilise TDS Ltd v Davies and others [2014] EWCA Civ 906, [2014] All ER (D) 53 (Jul)

Court of Appeal, Civil Division, Lord Dyson MR, Jackson & Vos LJJ, 4 Jul 2014 

The Court of Appeal has given further guidance on relief from sanctions under CPR 3.9.

Richard Stead (instructed by Burges Salmon LLP) for the claimants in the first appeal. Andrew P McLaughlin (instructed by BLM LLP) for the defendant in the first appeal. Gerard Clarke & Mark Vinall (instructed by DWF LLP) for the claimant in the second appeal. Ben Blakemore (instructed by Beor Wilson Lloyd) for the defendants in the second appeal. Vikram Sachdeva & Jack Anderson (instructed by Linder Myers LLP Solicitors) for the claimant in the third appeal. David Mohyuddin & Ian Tucker (instructed by Mills & Reeve LLP) for the second defendant in the third appeal. David Holland QC (instructed by Colemans-CTTS LLP, the Bar Council & the Law Society)

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NEWS
The Legal Action Group (LAG)—the UK charity dedicated to advancing access to justice—has unveiled its calendar of training courses, seminars and conferences designed to support lawyers, advisers and other legal professionals in tackling key areas of public interest law
The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 transformed criminal justice. Writing in NLJ this week, Ed Cape of UWE and Matthew Hardcastle and Sandra Paul of Kingsley Napley trace its ‘seismic impact’
Operational resilience is no longer optional. Writing in NLJ this week, Emma Radmore and Michael Lewis of Womble Bond Dickinson explain how UK regulators expect firms to identify ‘important business services’ that could cause ‘intolerable levels of harm’ if disrupted
Refusing ADR is risky—but not always fatal. Writing in NLJ this week, Masood Ahmed and Sanjay Dave Singh of the University of Leicester analyse Assensus Ltd v Wirsol Energy Ltd: despite repeated invitations to mediate, the defendant stood firm, made a £100,000 Part 36 offer and was ultimately ‘wholly vindicated’ at trial
As the drip-feed of Epstein disclosures fuels ‘collateral damage’, the rush to cry misconduct in public office may be premature. Writing in NLJ this week, David Locke of Hill Dickinson warns that the offence is no catch-all for political embarrassment. It demands a ‘grave departure’ from proper standards, an ‘abuse of the public’s trust’ and conduct ‘sufficiently serious to warrant criminal punishment’
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