An application by a Claimant to litigation concerning a licensing agreement for the sampling of a music track to adduce expert evidence in relation to commercial details of music streaming services in 2005 has been refused.

Dispute Resolution analysis: Complex applications, challenging amendments to group claims adding significant numbers of Claimants in circumstances where an arguable limitation defence has been raised have failed.

Dispute Resolution analysis: The High Court has given permission to bring a counterclaim challenging an earlier judgment following trial procured through pervasive fraud and dishonesty.

Professional undertakings are commonly used in residential conveyancing where the Law Society's Code for Completion by Post is adopted, enabling a faster more convenient style of completion.

Dispute Resolution analysis: The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision to grant summary judgment dismissing a claim by a tenant against a property management company for losses caused by the allegedly negligent...

Brie Stevens-Hoare KC discusses an update on contentious probate. The following topics are covered in this webinar...

Dispute Resolution analysis: Following a trial, a daughter has been held to be entitled to the receipt of substantial sums from the estate of her late mother pursuant to the terms of a contract...

The recent case of Goldhill Finance Limited v Smyth [2023] EWHC 362 provides a warning of the importance of raising issues early and accurately in pleadings and highlights an underused defence to claims...

Dispute Resolution analysis: On appeal, an order for disclosure against neutral Interim Administrators of the estate of a deceased person, requiring the search of review of non-contemporaneous internal documents...

Dispute Resolution analysis: A Claimant who made a US Dollar Part 36 Offer for effectively the entire claim sum was entitled to the CPR r.36.17 consequences when obtaining judgment at trial in the same foreign currency sum.

Claims by factory workers for contracting COVID-19 during the pandemic have been reinstated as a result of a successful appeal of the decision to grant summary...

Dispute Resolution analysis: On appeal, Ritchie J has concluded that permission ought to have been granted to a Claimant who sought to amend its Particulars of Claim and that relief should...

Dispute Resolution analysis: Mr Justice Michael Green has given limited permission to appeal his judgment of 1 November 2022 in which he permitted the Defendant to add an additional counterclaim...

The deceased, Ms Whiting was a 42 year old woman with a number of vulnerabilities in respect of her physical and mental health.

The Commercial Court has refused to grant a judgment creditor a second order under CPR Part 71 to examine a former director of the judgment debtor about the company's ability to pay...

Dispute Resolution analysis: The Court has ruled that various payments pleaded before being deleted on amendment fell outside the scope of a subsequent settlement deed and release.

On 24 May 2022 the government announced that the Lord Chancellor had decided to increase the special investment account rate from 0.1% to 0.645% from 29 April 2022.

The case raised the interesting question whether section 84(1) of the Law of Property Act 1925 confer power on the Upper Tribunal to discharge a restriction arising under a covenant...

The respondent (B) had been the registered proprietor of an area of land since September 2002. The appellants (Rs) had been the registered proprietors of adjoining land since July 2004.

Westminster City Council appealed against a decision dismissing its claim for possession against D1 and D2. In 2005, the Council had granted a joint secure tenancy to D1 and his wife (X).