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FinTech By Tim Ryan What is a Collection? A Collection is a selection of features, articles, comments and opinions on any given theme or topic. It allows you to stay up-to-date with what interests you most, by collecting everything into useful packages. A Collection…
TMT, software, tech projects and outsourcing By Tim Ryan The current decade has seen 'outsourcing' evolve into 'strategic sourcing' as the efficiency gains and other benefits of entrusting an organisations non-core functions to vendors are more open to question and scrutiny: whether you are looking at a…
Proposed Protect Duty: how might it impact the health and social care sector? By Rob Biddlecombe This month marks the first anniversary of the Liverpool Women's Hospital attack, which killed the suspected bomber and injured the driver of the taxi in which he was travelling. The Queen’s Speech 2022 outlined a proposed Protect Duty Bill with the…
Two Written Decisions Bringing The Simple Back into Scottish Simple Procedure Expenses DAC Beachcroft were instructed on behalf of Aviva Insurance in the cases of Bruce McKinlay v Aviva and David Cromie v Aviva.
Real Estate Housebuilder Tip of the Month - Deferred Payments and Security By Daniel Kendall The purchase price paid for development land may sometimes be deferred. The purchase price may paid in the future in one lump sum or there may be phased payments of part. Deferred payments frequently go hand in hand with a legal charge over the…
Health and Safety in Numbers – the HSE’s Annual Statistics for 2021/22 By Stefan Desbordes On 23 rd November, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published its annual statistics on work related ill-health and workplace injuries for the 2021/22 period. The HEADLINE figures … 1.8 million cases of work-related illness, of which are:…
La interrupción de la prescripción en el contrato de seguro: ¿una discusión cada vez más controversial? By Malory Zafra Sierra
Case Law Update for Dismissing Solicitors’ Negligence Claims By Florence Clissitt A recent spate of case law in the solicitors’ negligence arena has brought more guidance on when summary judgment and strike out applications will be successful for defendant law firms.
Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away: Can Firms Exert a Lien Over Disclosable Files? By Emma Murphy-O’Connor John Hodge Solicitors acted on behalf of Mr David Ellis after an injury suffered from an accident at a restaurant in 2014. The personal injury claim centred on whether the chronic pain and psychological symptoms experienced by Mr Ellis were caused…
Ransoms - to pay or not to pay, that is the question By Patrick Hill To take some of the headlines at face value which followed the publication of the Information Commissioner's Office ( ICO ) and National Cyber Security Centre ( NCSC ) joint letter to the Law Society and Bar Council [1] , one might be forgiven for…
Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 – recent court decisions relating to limitation issues and declarations from the court in respect of coverage By Gill Burnett The Third Parties (Rights against Insurers) Act 2010 (the “2010 Act”) came into force on 1 August 2016 and replaced the Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 1930 (the “1930 Act”).
Climate Change – do conveyancers owe a duty to clients to advise on the related risks? By Tessa Rook Climate change and its impact on our environment continues to be at the forefront of the minds of the general public through its continuous media coverage. Commercial clients too are increasingly conscious of their impact on the environment with the…
