Alex Hawley reflects on the rise in anti-austerity sentiment & the possible impact of the Unison judgment on civil court fees
Philip Evans QC & Tom Orpin-Massey cast an eye over the Gambling Commission’s new enforcement suite
Lawyers tell woeful tales about insurers unjustly prolonging litigation but experts can delay proceedings too, says David Locke
Peter Vaines discusses principles, stale discoveries & the downside of holiday property lets
JRM (by his father and litigation friend TRM) v King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust [2017] EWHC 1913 (QB), [2017] All ER (D) 30 (Aug)
Re Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008 (Case AK) [2017] EWHC 1154 (Fam), [2017] All ER (D) 55 (Aug)
Frosdick v Fox and another [2017] EWHC 1737 (Ch), [2017] All ER (D) 35 (Aug)
JSC Mezhdunarodniy Promyshlenniy Bank and another v Pugachev and others, [2017] EWHC 1936 (Ch), [2017] All ER (D) 41 (Aug)
Singh v Weayou [2017] EWHC 2102 (QB), [2017] All ER (D) 63 (Aug)
Re LB Holdings Intermediate 2 Ltd (in administration) [2017] EWHC 2032 (Ch), [2017] All ER (D) 45 (Aug)
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Laytons ETL—Maximilian Kraitt
Commercial firm strengthens real estate disputes team with associate hire
Switalskis—three appointments
Firm appoints three directors to board
Browne Jacobson—seven promotions
Six promoted to partner and one to legal director across UK and Ireland offices
From blockbuster judgments to procedural shake-ups, the courts are busy reshaping litigation practice. Writing in NLJ this week, Professor Dominic Regan of City Law School hails the Court of Appeal's 'exquisite judgment’ in Mazur restoring the role of supervised non-qualified staff, and highlights a ‘mammoth’ damages ruling likened to War and Peace, alongside guidance on medical reporting fees, where a pragmatic 25% uplift was imposed
