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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…
Causing Serious Injury by Careless Driving - A Significant Development in Road Traffic Prosecutions By Ash Sharma 28 June 2022 sees the introduction into UK law of the offence of "causing serious injury by careless driving". This will mean that drivers who may previously have been punished by a fine and points on their licence for careless driving which caused…
Housebuilder tip of the month: Opting to tax for VAT By Mary Waters HMRC’s processing times for option to tax notifications has recently increased leading to some transactions progressing before a copy of an option to tax acknowledgement letter has been received from HMRC. From 30 May 2022, HMRC have commenced a…
Learnings and Reflections from the Independent Neurology Inquiry By Natasha Moffett The Independent Neurology Inquiry has now published its’ findings. The Inquiry Chair, Mr Brett Lockhart QC, delivered a statement announcing the publication of the Inquiry Report on 21 st June via live stream which is available to watch back on…
Liquidated damages in commercial health projects By Hamza Drabu Liquidated damages (“LDs”) clauses are a common contractual feature in high value and/or complex commercial health projects. They are a useful tool for both customers and suppliers. From a customer’s perspective, they incentivise suppliers to…
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…