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2017

DAC Beachcroft's Claims Solutions' Costs Team Wins Again in the Court of Appeal

DAC Beachcroft's Claims Solutions' Costs Team Wins Again in the Court of Appeal

Our Claims Solutions' Costs Team has secured another significant win in the Court of Appeal, the second in almost as many months.

Clarification of Limitation Periods in Property Damage Claims

Clarification of Limitation Periods in Property Damage Claims

Overview In the recent decision in Brandley and WJB Developments v Deane and Ors, the Supreme Court ruled that in property damage cases, for the purpo ...

Confirmation from the Court of Appeal that a receiver may be appointed over debtor's legal interest in property to satisfy outstanding judgment

Confirmation from the Court of Appeal that a receiver may be appointed over debtor's legal interest in property to satisfy outstanding judgment

In ACC Loan Management Limited -v- Rickard [2017] IECA 245, the Court of Appeal ruled on two important aspects of the High Court's jurisdiction to app ...

New interim guidance on CANH withdrawal

New interim guidance on CANH withdrawal

Summary Following a flurry of recent court decisions, the British Medical Association, General Medical Council and Royal College of Physicians have jo ...

Health Real Estate Tip of the Week: Have your say on the Service Charge Code

Health Real Estate Tip of the Week: Have your say on the Service Charge Code

You may be involved in a service charge regime either as an occupier, or as a landlord of, for example, retail income-generating space. RICS have publ ...

Wrongful constructive dismissal: don't give misleading reasons for dismissal

Wrongful constructive dismissal: don't give misleading reasons for dismissal

Employer's false explanation that the reason for dismissal was reorganisation, when it was poor performance, breached the implied term of trust and co ...

Subject access requests under the GDPR:  much ado about nothing?

Subject access requests under the GDPR: much ado about nothing?

There is no denying that the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") will have far reaching consequences for how data is processed but, within the ...

Health Real Estate Tip of the Week: Defective Premises - When is a landlord liable for a tenant's unsafe premises?

Health Real Estate Tip of the Week: Defective Premises - When is a landlord liable for a tenant's unsafe premises?

Many parts of the NHS property portfolio are subject to a high volume of footfall from members of the general public, including individuals with impai ...

Paying the price? Latest on approach to calculating fines in health and social care safety prosecutions

Paying the price? Latest on approach to calculating fines in health and social care safety prosecutions

Summary An NHS Trust has recently been fined £333,333 in an HSE prosecution relating to inpatient falls, which are a continuing challenge for health a ...

A duty to speak, or is silence golden?

A duty to speak, or is silence golden?

Insurers are often reluctant to reserve their rights due to legitimate concerns that such a reservation may destabilise their relationship with the in ...