by squareeye | Dec 22, 2014 | Newsletter: December 2014
At the PNBA’s Annual Lawyers’ Liability Seminar on 11 October 2014, Michael Pooles QC delivered a lecture addressing what he modestly described as a pot pourri of novel or recurrent issues relevant to professional liability claims. One of these issues in particular...
by squareeye | Dec 22, 2014 | Newsletter: December 2014
Supreme Court 5 November 2014 [2014] UKSC 58 Subject: Trusts—Breach of trust—Re-mortgage of property—Solicitors holding funds on trust for completion—Solicitors in breach of trust by discharging part of existing mortgage debt and paying remainder over to...
by squareeye | Dec 22, 2014 | Newsletter: December 2014
Supreme Court 22 October 2014 [2014] UKSC 52; [2014] 3 W.L.R. 1163 Summary: Handing down judgment on 22 October 2014, the Supreme Court determined the legal and proprietary interests of lenders, purchasers and borrowers surrounding sale-and-rent-back transactions...
by squareeye | Dec 22, 2014 | Newsletter: December 2014
Court of Appeal 30 October 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 1410 Subject: Professional Negligence—Financial Advisers—Limitation—Losses to the value of a bond during the ‘credit crunch’—Section 14A of the Limitation Act 1980—Constructive Knowledge under section 14A (10) — “a...
by squareeye | Dec 22, 2014 | Newsletter: December 2014
[2014] EWHC 2553 (QB) Possible Leapfrog Appeal to the Supreme Court Abstract Personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners will know that the courts at first instance are bound by the much criticised decision of the House of Lords’ in Cookson v Knowles [1979]...
