Issue: Vol 165, Issue 7650

Catherine Leech reflects on the impact of Woodland on liability & arguments for a non-delegable duty of care

Should quality of life depend on the ability to claim compensation, ask Philippa Luscombe & Helen Hammond

ABC v PM and another [2015] EWFC 32, [2015] All ER (D) 122 (Apr)

Although all local authority employees are officers, are all authority officers necessarily employees, asks Nicholas Dobson

Leigh Mallon, James Kitching & Tobias Caspary explore opt-out “class-actions” for competition law damages actions in the UK

European Commission v Germany C-591/13, [2015] All ER (D) 127 (Apr)

Personal injury defendants with evidence of dishonesty will need to consider carefully whether to plead fraud, says Anna Pickering

Spliethoff’s Bevrachtingskantoor BV v Bank of China Ltd [2015] EWHC 999 (Comm), [2015] All ER (D) 123 (Apr)

City of Lincoln Council v Bird [2015] EWHC 843 (QB), [2015] All ER (D) 109 (Apr)

R (on the application of JK) v Registrar General for England and Wales [2015] EWHC 990 (Admin), [2015] All ER (D) 128 (Apr)