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Increase in general damages: Court of Appeal provides clarification
- Mills & Reeve LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- October 15 2012
In last month’s Health Legal Update, reference was made to the case of Simmons v Castle, where the Court of Appeal took the opportunity to confirm an increase in general damages of 10 per cent, effective from April 2013
Post settlement remorse strikes again
- Mills & Reeve LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- October 10 2012
The decision in Langsam v Beachcroft LLP and Others (2012) EWCA Civ 1230 raises a number of interesting issues about the process of settling litigation and the responsibilities of solicitors and counsel
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
Solicitors’ fee dispute
- Mills & Reeve LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- October 24 2011
The claimant’s claim for its fees for representing the defendant in family proceedings was upheld
Limitation and date of knowledge
- Mills & Reeve LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- October 24 2011
The claimant alleged that the defendant firm of solicitors had failed to inform him that his girlfriend had a right to sever the joint tenancy of the property they had bought together
Nayyar v Denton Wilde Sapte and Advani successful ex turpi causa defence
- Mills & Reeve LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- 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
Williams v Thompson Leatherdale duty to advise about significant forthcoming House of Lords decision
- Mills & Reeve LLP
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- United Kingdom
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- December 31 2008
On 26 October 2000 the House of Lords handed down their judgment in White v White
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- Workarea - Professional Negligence
- Workarea - General Practice
- Jurisdiction - United Kingdom
- Firm Name - Mills & Reeve LLP