Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 24 Mar 2015
The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) announced last week that they are going to re-launch the process for farmers to claim EU subsidy payments, reverting…
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 24 Mar 2015
On 6 April 2015, the new CDM Regulations 2015 (the "Regulations") will come into force. The Regulations set out the legal duties for the safe…
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 24 Mar 2015
Although a couple of months old, the case of Leslie v Farrar Construction Limited [2015] EWHC 58 (TCC) is of note as a stark example of how an…
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 23 Mar 2015
Contractors' combined liability insurance policies typically provide both public liability and product liability cover. In Aspen v Adana (2015), the…
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 23 Mar 2015
Recently we have had several queries from clients and users of our procurement portal around the requirement at regulation 112 to publish contract…
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 23 Mar 2015
The traditional principle of English common law has been that legal costs “follow the event”, the loser pays the winner’s costs....
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 23 Mar 2015
Court fees have gone up. This will pose a significant extra cost for claimants to get their case started, and an equally significant cost for…
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 23 Mar 2015
An employee (a chef) has assaulted a colleague (a waiter) during the course of service at an insured restaurant in Staffordshire. The waiter has been…
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 23 Mar 2015
The Supreme Court has recently held that a beach within a harbour should not be registered as a town or village green. The decision in R (Newhaven…
Mills & Reeve LLP | United Kingdom | 23 Mar 2015
It has been remarked that "Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible…