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Be particular about particulars

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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May 29 2013

In this briefing, we look at the issues raised by Venulum Property Investments Ltd v Space Architecture Ltd. These include the court's approach to

A round-up of some recent litigation cases

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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May 29 2013

The Court of Appeal reviewed the jurisdiction to make a non-party costs order (NCPO) against a solicitor who has acted under a conditional fee

For this relief, no thanks

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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May 29 2013

Cats, reputedly, have nine lives and in the past litigants and their solicitors seemed to have as many. The courts' approach to extensions of time

Professional indemnity cover

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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February 23 2011

The first defendant solicitor had not been acting as a solicitor in private legal practice when conducting his administration of the estates of a deceased couple as a personal representative

The merger doctrine

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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January 24 2011

Parties who have had a dispute heard by a judicial tribunal of competent jurisdiction should not be allowed to litigate the same issues in the courts

Standard Life Assurance Ltd v ACE European Group financial mis-selling claims

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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March 2 2012

The claimant, Standard Life, claimed under its professional indemnity insurance for about £100 million spent to mitigate the risk of anticipated claims arising from the mis-selling of its Standard Life Pension Sterling Fund (the Fund

When should a defendant make a Calderbank offer?

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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July 31 2012

Recent developments have reduced the costs protection afforded by Calderbank offers and asserted the importance of making fully compliant Part 36 offers

E-disclosure

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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March 27 2012

Where costs were wasted by reason of one party’s failures regarding the disclosure of electronic documents, it was appropriate to award the other party the costs in question

Jurisdiction clauses

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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January 30 2010

This case concerns a series of complex agreements relating to equities and foreign exchange trading concluded between the claimant, an investment bank domiciled in Germany, and the defendant company incorporated in the Turks and Caicos Islands

Goldsmith Williams v Travelers Insurance Company Ltd - condoning dishonesty

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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February 28 2010

The dishonesty exclusion in a professional indemnity policy applied where a director of the solicitors’ firm Joshua & Usman Legal Services Limited (JULS), Ms Usman, had condoned a state of affairs which allowed her fellow director, Mr Atikpakpa, to perpetrate two mortgage frauds in which the firm had acted for the lenders

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