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Allowing disproportionate force in self-defence - a triumph of rhetoric over reason

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 9 2013

"It is rare for householders to be confronted by intruders in their homes and even rarer for them to be arrested, prosecuted and convicted as a

R (on the application of F) v The Director of Public Prosecutions and “A” 2013 EWHC 945 (Admin)

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 9 2013

In a decision published on 24 April 2013 the High Court took the "highly exceptional" step of ordering the CPS to review its decision not to

Reforming judicial review yet more proposals

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 17 2013

In our blog of 24 January, we outlined details of the Government's consultation on possible changes to the judicial review process and the reasons

Peter Teong Tatt Chuah v Nursing and Midwifery Council 2013 EWHC 894 (Admin)

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 26 2013

In November 2008 N was convicted of driving with excess alcohol and in April 2009 the West Midlands Police informed the NMC of the same. The NMC were

Clinical negligence and personal injury: loss of chance

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 9 2012

The method by which the courts assess whether a future event would have occurred, but for the defendant’s negligence, is at the heart of any determination of causation and is often highly relevant to quantum

Interim payments - advance but with 'disciplined and structured' caution

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 3 2013

In the third of our annual updates on the post-Eeles landscape, it is apparent that the courts and practitioners continue to grapple with complex

Admissibility of hearsay evidence in disciplinary and fitness to practise proceedings

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 8 2011

B, a consultant paediatric cardiologist, was accused of sexually abusing boys in Kenya

Suspicious Wills: the rise of ‘want of knowledge and approval’ claims?

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 20 2012

A high profile case was heard at the High Court in London recently, in which two Wills prepared by an individual on behalf of his sisters were set aside on the grounds of want of knowledge and approval

Family justice reforms: the demise of legal aid, the rise of the litigant in person and what lies ahead for family law

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 29 2013

The government overhaul of Legal Aid (public funding) came into force on 1 April 2013 and is due to affect the entire justice system. Criminal

Surrogacy: who’s the mummy?

  • Kingsley Napley
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 6 2012

The unusual case of two lesbian mothers in Florida raises interesting questions relating to the use of surrogates and what the legal situation would be in a similar situation in England and Wales