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PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF COSTS: YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT: THE COURT'S APPROACH WHEN THE COSTS SCHEDULES ARE "EYE-WATERING"

PAYMENTS ON ACCOUNT OF COSTS: YOU CAN’T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT: THE COURT’S APPROACH WHEN THE COSTS SCHEDULES ARE “EYE-WATERING”

February 25, 2018 · by gexall · in Costs, Members Content

In Dana Gas PJSC v Dana Gas Sukuk Ltd & Ors [2018] EWHC 332 (Comm) Lord Justice Leggatt considered the principles relating to payments on account of costs.  In particular the approach the court should take when there were weighty commercial…

SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT IN A NEGLIGENCE ACTION AGAINST SOLICITORS

SUMMARY JUDGMENT FOR DEFENDANT IN A NEGLIGENCE ACTION AGAINST SOLICITORS

February 25, 2018 · by gexall · in Civil evidence, Civil Procedure, Members Content, Professional negligence,, Summary judgment

I am grateful to my colleague at Hardwicke, Laurence Page, for sending me a transcript of the judgment of District Judge Langley in the case of Wright -v- Rix & Kay Solicitors, Central London County Court, 30/11/2017 (available here Wrighttranscript)….

EXPERTS: THE JOINT REPORT AND THOSE TROUBLESOME "AGENDAS"

EXPERTS: THE JOINT REPORT AND THOSE TROUBLESOME “AGENDAS”

February 25, 2018 · by gexall · in Case Management, Civil evidence, Civil Procedure, Clinical Negligence, Expert evidence, Experts, Members Content

There are several passages in the judgment of Mrs Justice Yip in  David John Saunders  -v- Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWHC 343 (QB) that highlight a common problem with joint reports.  That is the problematic “agenda”. A …

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