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Issued on 20th April - sorry to be a bit slow. Lots of PDFs on the Law Society page here. So we are back to wait and see. But even if the contract has to be reformulated, it won't change the really damaging stuff that the LSC proposes to introduce...
There are times, such as this, that the requirements of anonymity are a bit annoying. Much though I enjoy the dark powers conferred by my mask of mystery, being the Fantômas of housing law, it does mean that some things can't be posted about at the...
Not that I am at all obsessive about such things, at least not since I forced myself to keep checking down to once a month or so, but out of the allegedly 71 million blogs tracked by Technorati (surely less than half of which are active), Nearly...
I was talking with a friend this weekend, one of the few people who know my secret identity. 'Why', my friend asked me, 'don't you have more about criminal law and practice on the blog?' 'More?', I said, 'I have nothing about Criminal on there'....
As regular readers may recall, the limit for disrepair claims to fall into small claims was under review. Proposals were made to raise the current limit of £1000 to £5000. Regular readers will recall that I thought that this was a Bad Thing....
Musing over the Court of Appeal judgment ([2007] EWCA Civ 236) today, it struck me that the case does something rather dramatic to the issue of tolerated trespassers, extending the thrust of Swindon v Aston [2003] HLR 610. What we knew from Swindon...
I was scanning the Court of Appeal judgments, waiting for White v Knowsley, when this came up: London & Quadrant Housing Trust v Ansell [2007] EWCA Civ 326 Now that is interesting. Not so much for the conclusion - although the argument is...
Having posted on the costs raked in by Beresfords and others from the Miners' Compensation Scheme, and having suggested that it was the DTI's problem for setting the fixed costs, it naturally turns out that I should have done my homework, as the...
While Natwest is quite happy to have the threat of a bankrupting costs order hang over Tom Brennan (see below), it appears that the bank can come over all coy and confused about costs when it means settling a claim. According to this BBC story (via...
Entirely thanks to Enquiring Minds, I have found Feedity, which will turn a web page into a RSS feed where it lacks one. Given the lack of RSS feeds for all kinds of legal and government sites, this is a very useful thing if it works as advertised....
I'm not going to weigh in on the details of the case brought by newly qualified barrister Tom Brennan against Nat West, apparently adjourned for a full day's argument on the issue of whether aggravated and exemplary damages are even available,...