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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…
The UK Innovation Strategy: Learnings and reflections from 2021/2022 By Kelsey Farish In July 2021, the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy published a policy paper entitled The UK Innovation Strategy: leading the future by creating it (the “Strategy”). The purpose of the Strategy is to set out…
NHS Resolution publishes report following thematic review of clinical negligence claims relating to diabetes and lower limb complications in England By Stuart Wallace NHS Resolution has published an important report on lower limb claims (the majority of which involving amputations) arising from diabetes in England, with the aim of improving patient care and reducing the number of claims being made.
Cannabis Claims – A Growing Issue for Insurers By Mark Gallagher At DACB, we are continually working with insurers and the industry to assess and counter emerging issues around claims and fraud. One such issue is the escalation of cannabis farm claims related to landlord or property claims. Cannabis farms…
Supreme Court Decisions on Occupier Test – ignore the facts, focus on the bigger picture! By Richard Bell In a much anticipated decision of the Supreme Court in no less than three appeals by telecommunications operators, Lady Rose made clear today that the much litigated question as to who was the occupier of land for the purpose of paragraph 9 of the…
Actionable or acceptable? – The narrow line between sport and Tort By Richard Rowe Background Personal injury claims arising out of incidents between participants in sport is an area that has provided some difficult issues over the years given the interplay between playing within the rules and customs of the sport and negligent…
Competition Appeals Tribunal grants Collective Proceedings Order in Trucks Litigation By Laura Berry On 8 June, in the latest instalment of the long-running “Trucks Litigation”, the Competition Appeals Tribunal (“ CAT ”) granted Road Haulage Association Limited’s (“ RHA ”) application for a Collective Proceedings Order (“ CPO ”). This is the first…
Latest on what lies ahead for data in health and social care By Darryn Hale The final version of the Department of Health and Social Care’s data strategy - Data saves lives: reshaping health and social care with data - has now landed, which follows on from the draft version published for consultation last year (see our…
Judgment delivered to strike out Defence & Counterclaim By Jemma Lewis The Court considered how solicitor delay in making prompt Applications could be disadvantageous to the client. The solicitor should consider whether they are compliant with Practice Directions even when faced with a simple error.
UK data protection compliance: The journey in a new direction begins By Jade Kowalski On Friday 17 th June 2022, the UK Government published its eagerly awaited response to the “Data: a new direction” consultation. As a reminder, the consultation (which ran from September – November 2021) sought views on a number of proposals to…
Commercial Court upholds CMR Convention limits Knapfield v. C.A.R.S Holdings Ltd & Ors (2022) By Anthony Menzies The Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road (the CMR Convention) has been ratified by most European states, and was given effect in England by the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965. The CMR applies to every…