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What the courts are saying

Bricker & Eckler LLP
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USA
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January 16 2009

In our first case for the month of January, we look at whether a township was immune from liability for allegedly failing to maintain a road properly

Limitation and sex abuse claims

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 17 2008

Intentionally inflicted injuries fall within the definition of personal injury claims covered by s11 Limitation Act 1980

Postponed possession order following drug convictions

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 24 2008

The housing team recently acted on behalf of a Midlands-based local authority in bringing a possession claim against a 26-year-old man following convictions related to possession of drugs and complaints of anti-social behaviour

£82 million on pavement slips and trips

Kennedys
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United Kingdom
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September 11 2009

English councils have paid out more than £82 million in the last five years in compensation for injuries sustained by people tripping over on pavements

R (Hurst) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 30 2007

A coroner was not required to give effect to the investigative obligation under Art 2 of the ECHR when holding an inquest into a death which occurred before the Human Rights Act 1998 was implemented on 2 October 2000

Case study 2 ASBO: Lambeth LBC -v- Assing

Cobbetts LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 20 2007

In this case, Mr Assing had been a secure tenant of a flat for nine years

Met police chief reveals secret recording of phone conversations

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 25 2007

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair was recently revealed to have taped a telephone conversation with the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith and has also admitted to recording several other calls with Senior Officials from the Independent Police Complaints Commission

A setback for tort reform in Pennsylvania

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
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USA
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May 8 2007

During 2006 the cause of tort reform suffered a significant setback in Pennsylvania

House of Lords departs from previous decision in Stubbings v Webb

Kennedys
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United Kingdom
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February 8 2008

The House of Lords has overturned its own previous decision in the case of Stubbings v Webb 1993 AC 498 in which the House had unanimously decided that s11 of the Limitation Act 1980 did not apply to acts of deliberate assault (including acts of indecent assault), and allowed the appeals in the cases of A v Hoare, X and Another v Wandsworth London Borough Council, C v Middlesborough Council, H v Suffolk County Council, Young v Catholic Care (Diocese of Leeds) and Another

Palmer v Cornwall County Council

Kennedys
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United Kingdom
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June 12 2009

On 12 July 2001 Scott Palmer, then aged 14 and a pupil in year 9 at a school in Cornwall, was hit in the eye by a rock thrown at a seagull, by another pupil

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What the courts are saying

Limitation and sex abuse claims

Postponed possession order following drug convictions

£82 million on pavement slips and trips

R (Hurst) v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis

Case study 2 ASBO: Lambeth LBC -v- Assing

Met police chief reveals secret recording of phone conversations

A setback for tort reform in Pennsylvania

House of Lords departs from previous decision in Stubbings v Webb

Palmer v Cornwall County Council

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