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Herbert Smith Freehills
On 6 April 2024, an amendment to the Civil Procedure Rules came into force regarding penal notices – that is, notices given to persons served with a court order warning them that breach of the order may be punishable...
Herbert Smith Freehills
On 19 March, the Litigation Funding Agreements (Enforceability) Bill was introduced to Parliament, following on from the government's announcement on 4 March...
Lewis Silkin
The FCA has recently committed to carrying out enforcement cases more quickly as it seeks to increase the deterrent impact of its enforcement actions.
Herbert Smith Freehills
The High Court has granted an application to strike out certain passages from defendants' witness evidence on the basis that they were protected...
Herbert Smith Freehills
The Civil Procedure Rule Committee is consulting on a revised rule 5.4C which, as currently drafted, would lead to parties' witness statements...
Marks & Clerk
In an order dated 26 February 2024, the UPC Court of Appeal in Luxembourg decided that issuance of a decision in appeal proceedings regarding a preliminary injunction...
Marks & Clerk
In a Procedural Order dated 24 January 2024, the Munich Central Division Court of First Instance set out an interesting decision concerning the admissibility of written submissions in response to a Rejoinder.
Harneys
In a recent decision of the King's Bench Division of England and Wales the Court set aside an order (O2) that extended time for compliance with an earlier disclosure order (O1).
Gatehouse Chambers
The Appellants' father had been the registered proprietor of land. He died intestate in 2010. The Appellants obtained letters of administration in 2019...
Harneys
In the recent decision in Lakatamia Shipping Company Ltd v Hsia and another (the Lakatamia Ruling), the UK Commercial Court provided helpful commentary...
Gunnercooke
Laxmi Swami was born into an impoverished family in Mumbai. She had already had 7 children by the age of 20.
Gatehouse Chambers
Charlotte Wilk acted unled for the paying party, instructed by Jon Finebaum of Comptons Solicitors.
Norton Rose Fulbright Hong Kong
In Byers & Ors v Saudi National Bank [2023] UKSC 51, the Supreme Court set out the equitable principles underlying claims in knowing receipt, in particular where a transfer has been made...
IR Global
This is the first in a three-part series examining how the law allowed the Post office scandal to happen and the role now being played by the law and those who work within it in redressing what has been described as the largest miscarriage of justice in legal history.
Gatehouse Chambers
Costs In 2024: Wasted Costs
Lanyon Bowdler
Welcome to The Legal Lounge, where you'll hear from Amanda and her team of lawyers from Lanyon Bowdler Solicitors talking about many aspects of law in England and Wales.
Gorvins Solicitors
Back in 2022, we covered how unregulated will writers were defrauding vulnerable people. Unfortunately, There's been another high profile case of fraudulent and immoral legal...
Herbert Smith Freehills
In a significant recent decision, the High Court refused to grant a ‘Norwich Pharmacal' disclosure order (NPO)...
European Union
I. Frangos & Associates LLC
This article addresses the legal background of the recognition and enforcement of judgements issued by the EU Member States in the United Kingdom after the withdrawal...
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
The revised HMRC guidance relates back to the important decision in July 2015 of the UK Supreme Court in Anson v HMRC [2015] UKSC 44 ("Anson").
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