Association of Regulatory and Disciplinary Lawyers: Winner – ARDL Mentor of the Year Award 2024 & 2022
31 August 2022: A second appeal to the Court of Appeal in unconnected cases striking out negligence claims against local authorities arising out of their statutory functions under the Children Act 1989 involved consideration of the circumstances in which a…
The Court of Appeal considered for the first time the admissibility of a foreign conviction in family proceedings: W-A (Children : Foreign Conviction) [2022] EWCA Civ 1118 - Bean, Peter Jackson, Dingemans LJJ Although the present appeal arose in a…
In what Sir Andrew McFarlane described as a truly tragic case in which 12-year-old Archie Batersbee’s interests had rightly and repeatedly been given the most anxious attention, the judge had made a conscientious decision that the Court of Appeal would…
In an unusual case where the appellant was acquitted of misconduct by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, an appeal was brought concerning the tribunal’s approach to open justice and to the anonymity of persons mentioned in the tribunal’s decision relevant to…
In an appeal against the refusal of Keehan J to recuse himself from further hearings in private law proceedings under the Children Act 1989 about a four-year-old boy, the Court of Appeal affirmed the law relating to recusal: AZ (A…
The appellant underwent a total hip replacement with a metal-on-metal (MITCH-Accolade) prosthetic hip after which he claimed that the replacement hip was defective and sought damages under the Consumer Protection Act 1987 (CPA). Before the Supreme Court he sought, firstly,…
A solicitor who was struck off the Roll by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal after conviction and fine in the Crown Court on three counts (covering 9 separate incidents of parking) of using his son’s disabled blue badge with intent to…
Setting aside a Recorder’s judgment from the Swansea Civil Justice Centre and allowing each of four grounds of appeal, a High Court Judge ordered a retrial of an action brought for assault or negligence in the course of a football…
An NHS Trust brought proceedings for contempt against W following her clinical negligence action against them which had resulted in the parties settling liability as to 50:50 - North Bristol NHS Trust v Holly Rebecca White [2022] EWHC 1313 (QB):…
This is a transcript of the Podcast Episode on this website entitled Parliamentary Bully or Reforming Speaker. It can be found on this link Podcast - Barry Baines John Bercow was Speaker of the House of Commons from June 2009…