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Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council: The power of the courts to order parties to engage in dispute resolution

Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council: The power of the courts to order parties to engage in dispute resolution

The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment in Churchill v Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council [2023] EWCA Civ 1416 on the issue of whether a court ...

Holmes v Poteon Holdings: Indivisibility and causation in the Court of Appeal

Holmes v Poteon Holdings: Indivisibility and causation in the Court of Appeal

In the case of Holmes v Poeton Holdings Limited [2023] EWCA Civ 1377, in which DAC Beachcroft's Head of Disease, William Potts assisted by Daniel Hobs ...

Article 3 - What is the test for inhuman and degrading treatment in a social care context?

Article 3 - What is the test for inhuman and degrading treatment in a social care context?

The Supreme Court last week refused the Claimant's application for permission to appeal in the case of AB v Worcestershire County Council and Birmingh ...

Health and Safety in Numbers – the HSE’s Annual Statistics for 2022/23

Health and Safety in Numbers – the HSE’s Annual Statistics for 2022/23

On 22nd November, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published its annual statistics on work related ill-health and workplace injuries for the 2022 ...

Road deaths in Scotland at their highest since 2016

Road deaths in Scotland at their highest since 2016

Transport Scotland has recently published statistics confirming 173 people were killed in road collisions in Scotland in 2022. This is 32 more than in ...

"Full and final" means "full and final"

"Full and final" means "full and final"

In February we reported on the striking out with costs of a claim brought in respect of hire charges of £45,000 after a Part 36 offer in respect of th ...

Selling an Insurance Broker - some common issues arising

Selling an Insurance Broker - some common issues arising

The insurance broker consolidation market has been extremely active in recentyears, and that trend seems set to continue for the time being. There hav ...

Latest ASHE data on carers' pay – PPO recalculations and care cost inflation

Latest ASHE data on carers' pay – PPO recalculations and care cost inflation

It must be Autumn as the country is being buffeted by one storm after another and the Office for National Statistics has just published the latest ver ...

Automated vehicles back on the parliamentary agenda

Automated vehicles back on the parliamentary agenda

On 7th November, King Charles III delivered his first King's Speech, and what is highly likely to be the current government's final agenda before the ...

Are E-bikes Motor Vehicles?

Are E-bikes Motor Vehicles?

In KBC Verzekeringen NV v P&V Verzekeringen CVBA C-286/22 the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), was required to rule on a claim arisi ...