You wait ages for a government consultation, and then they all come along at once. Not only is the consultation on fixed recoverable costs ongoing (particularly excitingly

This week's Dekagram features carriage by air, sea and torpedo, and some interesting developments brought to our attention by our network of friends.

This week the team has been reflecting on a recent Court of Appeal case which turned out to be something of an evidential surprise; and on issues around disability and handicap

Another week, another update on the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, a piece of legislation which has the potential to disrupt the underpinnings of almost all of the law we in the travel and cross border world rely on as informing our worldview.

In Martin Warren v Yesss (A) Electrical Limited [2024] EWCA Civ 24 the following question was asked: what is the correct test to apply when a party makes...

This judgment is essential reading for practitioners specialising in abuse claims. It is also of considerable importance to those who practise

This judgment is essential reading for practitioners specialising in abuse claims. It is also of considerable importance to those who practise in personal injury more broadly.

This article discusses a recent case where I was instructed to act on behalf of an insurer defendant in an application for a non-party costs order against a credit hire company...

Nonetheless, since Mohamud was decided in 2016, that quest has continued in earnest. Indeed, the issue has been before the Supreme Court on three separate occasions.

An unusual, complicated and interesting case which confronts the delicate conflict between religious belief and inclusive secular education.

Claims arising out of the mass cancellation of holidays due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the measures taken to contain it have started to come through the courts, first as a trickle...

Last week we were asking ourselves whether the courts' introduction of artificial intelligence is imminent. This week we read that the time it takes to bring a claim to trial has reached...

Court bundles. If we don't fear them, we should. The team knows of one eminent silk whose greatest apprehension prior to appearing in the Court of Appeal is not about his case preparation or his legal knowledge, but whether the Court will raise some hitherto unnoticed issue with pagination.

1. In Michael Holmes v Poeton Holdings Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 1377 the Court of Appeal, in something of a tour d'horizon of the relevant authorities, revisited the "material contribution"...

It's been another busy week at the coalface. The High Court, in Arthern v Ryanair [2023] EWHC 46 (KB), gave further guidance on the interpretation of ‘accident' within the meaning of the Montreal Convention.

What can temper the gratification of finally settling a case? Perhaps only the realisation that the settlement terms are not what you thought they were. Two examples of mistakes being...

This week the team look at what some will find a surprising development in the doctrine of novus actus interveniens in the context of medical interventions...

As you know, we keep a weather eye on what's going on in other jurisdictions; often developments internationally can inform and sometimes even influence our own domestic law.

In all the excitement this week – yes, the inaugural Deka Chambers Eurovision Sweepstake was drawn on Thursday – you could be forgiven for missing an important decision on the recoverability...

In this week's Dekagram we consider recent cases which raise some urgent questions around how the QOCS and whiplash tariff systems are working.