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LeO complaints handling with bite

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 8 2013

The Jackson reforms, as recently enacted by the Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012, have fundamentally changed the litigation

Court of Appeal rules that a solicitor should not be subject to a non party costs order for failing to obtain after the event insurance

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 2 2013

The court's jurisdiction to make a non party costs order (NCPO) against a solicitor who has acted under a conditional fee agreement (CFA) without

If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it!

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 8 2013

This is a time of significant change for the profession's regulatory framework with economic pressures impacting on large and small law firms

Nayyar v Denton Wilde Sapte and Advani successful ex turpi causa defence

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 28 2010

The court applied the ex turpi causa rule and dismissed the claims against Denton Wilde Sapte and a solicitor employed by the firm in its India Group

Court of Protection refuses permission for sterilisation of young woman with Down’s syndrome

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 8 2013

The Court of Protection has ruled that a "delightful, warm, engaging and affectionate" 21-year-old woman with Down's syndrome should not be

Occupiers Liability Act 1957 - case update

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 30 2011

A recent decision of the Court of Appeal emphasises that both under the Occupiers Liability Act and under the Common Law, the duty on the occupier of premises is to exercise "reasonable care"

Vicarious liability

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 21 2011

The Bishop of Portsmouth could in principle be held vicariously liabile for the torts of a priest of his diocese even though the relationship differed in significant respects from a relationship of employer and employee

Conflict of laws - the applicable law for torts committed abroad

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 24 2012

Where a tort takes place abroad, the quantum of the award of damages made by the English court is affected by complex choice of law issues

Lloyds TSB Bank Plc v Markandan & Uddin meaning of “completion”

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 2 2012

Where the defendant firm of solicitors had caused, through no fraud of their own, mortgage monies paid to it to be paid out to fraudsters in breach of the terms of their instructions and authority, it had acted in breach of trust

All you need to know about the Jackson reforms

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 4 2012

Six months to go before the biggest shake-up of the civil litigation costs and funding regime since 2000

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