My gut instinct regarding my last post on Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance’s business structure increasing the costs of accident repair was that it was unlikely to be the end of the matter. Permission had been granted to appeal; I fully expected to see the matter be resolved there. But that would only determine […]
Mr Fallows’ car was damaged by a vehicle owned by the defendants. Liability was not an issue. Mr. Fallows’ vehicle was insured by Royal and Sun Alliance, who sought to recover their costs from the defendant’s insurers. The costs were £1825.53. Not a large sum. However, the defendants objected.
The reason for the objection was […]
Data storage in the cloud is clearly the where things are moving just now. Given the plethora of devices people have — computers at home, laptops and tablets on the move, smartphones in the pocket, it makes perfect sense for all of a person’s devices to use a single, common repository for shared information. Services […]
Back in the middle of may, I had just finished studying my judicial review modules on my law course, and I thought it would be a good use of a free day to head to court to see judicial review in practice. As luck would have it, there was a case listed that day, the […]
A month or so ago I wrote an article on here about how the rise in injunctions granted protecting the identity of the parties was the fault of the tabloids, and it’s good to see that in writing that, I was agreeing with the views of Stephen Sedley, the recently–retired judge of the Court […]
My road toward the law has been long and not direct — but one web site in particular kept my interest when I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do. Given my science background and near–obsessive need for information, you may not be surprised that the site is BAILII.
BAILII is a database of […]
A man who killed two British tourists in Florida will not go to jail — even though he fled the scene and lied to the police. Ryan LeVin paid an undisclosed amount to the widows of those he killed, and will serve two years house arrest.
The offences’ sentencing guidelines call for up for […]
So, Mr. Salmond would like to see the removal of the Supreme Court’s power to decide Human Rights issues with regard to the Scottish criminal justice system. Moreover, he has chosen to personalise the issue by attacking Lord Hope, the deputy president of the Supreme Court, and previously lord justice general of Scotland. The […]
News Group tried to get CTB’s anonymity injunction listed last night, after John Hemming MP named the person in Parliament.
While Tugendhat J’s ruling unfortunately kinda confirms that (via jigsaw identification) we all know who CTB is now, the third paragraph in the ruling — CTB v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2011] […]
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To some, court dress is important.
Getting up and talking in front of people is one of these activities that does not often come naturally. I have been doing in different ways from around the age of 13 — the thick end of thirty years, now. I have done it in a wide range of forms — on stage in plays […]