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Can mental health support teams help with the surge in demand for services within UK schools?
Schools will soon begin piloting a scheme that will see support teams work with children in a bid to address concerns surrounding mental health in you ...
D&O and FI Newsletter - May 2019
DAC Beachcroft's D&O and FI newsletter features topical issues for our global clients and contacts. Court of Appeal rejects novel arguments ...
Overseas Production Orders – UK law enforcement agencies have new powers to compel disclosure of electronic data stored abroad (well, not quite yet)
On 12 February 2019, the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019 came into force. Its aim is to assist law enforcement agencies speed up the proc ...
Court of Appeal rejects novel arguments raised by banking customer in mis-selling litigation against bank
The recent Court of Appeal decision in Elite Property Holdings Ltd & Another v Barclays Bank Plc is another instance of the court refusing to ente ...
Class Actions in the English Courts - Update
There have been two interesting recent decisions in the English courts which cast an interesting light on the English judiciary’s approach to collecti ...
Construction Risk Newsletter - May 2019
Since our last edition, there has been some useful and relevant precedent set down by the various Courts. In particular the Courts have sought to gra ...
Liquidated Damages post termination
In 2012, TPT a supplier of software used in commodities trading was engaged by PTT, a commodities trader, to provide a new software system for trading ...
What constitutes “Practical Completion” considered in (1) Mears Ltd v Costplan Services (South East) Ltd and others; and (2) University of Warwick v Balfour Beatty
A fundamental but often overlooked principle of any agreement relating to works is what constitutes “practical completion”. Most standard forms fail t ...
