Marsh v Rotherham Health Authority – QBD, 1 October 1996 Claimant: Rachel Marsh (nine years) Incident: Medical negligence Injuries: Acute oxygen starvation at birth leading to cerebral palsy and quadriplegia. The claimant is totally dependent on parents and carers. No admission of liability but defendants agreed to settle claim. Of the award, £850,000 will go […]
LITTLETON Chambers is to sponsor a new Oxford University prize for the best employment law student. The commercial set hit on the idea of organising the annual prize as a way of highlighting its own expertise in the employment law field. Each year a panel of judges will nominate the best employment law student for […]
Home Secretary Michael Howard has suffered his fair share of defeats at the hands of the courts recently, as his decisions in a range of areas have been overturned by judges. Few of those defeats, however, have been more widely publicised than the recent case in which the Home Office was told to reconsider its […]
Mr Justice Collins has given the green light for a challenge which could have implications in respect of local authority obligations to pay the rent of those living in accommodation owned by relatives. The case centres on 24-year-old Gloucester woman Victoria Dadds, whose counsel is James Bowen of 6 King’s Bench Walk chambers. Her application […]
Fawzie Zuberi, a trainee solicitor at the Blackwell Partnership in Harrow, is the winner of The Lawyer competition for a Canon personal copier. Zuberi wins a portable FCT30 copier worth £595.
ONE hundred and fifty people gathered at the Waldorf Hotel in London last week to celebrate Brick Court Chambers’ 75th anniversary The chambers, which specialises in commercial law including shipping, insurance and banking, was founded by former Labour attorney-general and pre-eminent commercial lawyer William Jowitt. He was soon joined by a young barrister, Patrick – […]
European lawyers descended on the UK at the beginning of this month to speak on recovering debts in the EU at an open panel seminar at the UK’s Credit and Recovery Expo 1996. The conference, held in Birmingham, covered debt collection in European business. The organiser, Steve Martin, said: “Lawyers views are more valid than […]
The past year has seen significant growth in a new area of litigation for Health Service bodies. In addition to the burdens of allegations of clinical negligence and the consequential litigation, there are a number of new types of challenge being brought by way of judicial review. One aspect of this has been the rising […]
The National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders has published an alternative white paper on crime. Prevention, Restoration and Reintegration argues that crime prevention should become a priority and custody seen as a last resort. It proposes an expansion of crime prevention initiatives, reintegration schemes and restoration projects which enable offenders to make […]
The House of Lords is considering whether to entertain an appeal by Customs and Excise against an Appeal Court decision on 19 February allowing an appeal by Michael Emmett, who is serving 12.5 years for drug trafficking offences, in respect of a confiscation order against him. The Law Lords have allowed Emmett until Thursday to […]
Know-How and Information Provision in Legal Firms is reported to be the first study on the development of know-how systems in UK legal firms and its impact on the operation of in-house information services. Know-how, which is defined as a record of the combination of personal knowledge and related work experience of individuals, is increasingly […]
The parents of a girl who was asked to leave her boarding school are suing the school for a term’s fees. David and Georgina Dawkins, of Maidstone, Kent, have issued a writ claiming £3,650 from St Michael’s School Limpsfield, of Limpsfield, Surrey, with interest of £51.20 and continuing interest of 80p a day. The writ […]