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Email acceptance of offer

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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March 26 2010

There is no authority to say whether an email acceptance is effective when it arrives or at the time when the offeror could reasonably have been expected to read it

Settlement

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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November 28 2011

The Technology and Construction Court (TCC) gave a declaration that a telephone conversation between the parties' managing directors had settled a construction dispute

Jones v Kaney leap-frog appeal to Supreme Court

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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February 28 2010

The claimant brought a personal injury claim following a road accident

Part 36 offers

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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November 28 2011

Where defendants were really in the position of claimants and had legitimately made offers which were not Part 36 offers but which sought to comply with the requirements of CPR 36, the court made an order for indemnity costs and enhanced interest at ten per cent above base rate on the claim and costs, for part of the relevant period

XVW & YZA v Gravesend Grammar School for Girls

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 25 2012

Neither a school nor a specialist expedition company were vicariously liable for the acts of a man who raped three girls on a school expedition in Belize, while they were working and staying on his farm

Time bars and estoppel

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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November 28 2011

Although there is no general duty owed by one party to litigation to correct the mistakes of the other, there are circumstances in which deliberately allowing the other party to continue in a mistaken belief will be unconscionable

Where are we with Jackson?

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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January 30 2013

April 2013 sees the biggest shake-up of the civil litigation costs and funding regime since 2000. That was when success fees and premiums became

Relief from sanctions

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 29 2011

The court can grant relief from sanctions where a party has failed to comply with a time limit in a consent order but it should only do so where there are special circumstances

Construction of insurance policy

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 26 2012

Even though the “theft by employees” section of a policy was not selected by the insured, the insured was covered under the “theft” section of the policy for theft by employees

Lane v Cullens Solicitors Law Society v Sephton argument

Mills & Reeve LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 22 2011

The claimant’s attempt to rely on Law Society v Sephton to postpone the accrual of his cause of action against the defendant solicitors was unsuccessful

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