Practice area
The conduct of civil litigation itself: costs, case management, jurisdiction and service, limitation, disclosure, procedural appeals, and enforcement of judgments.
Somerset Council, the local planning authority, applied for a final injunction under section 187B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 in respect of land adjoining 6 Oxen Lane, North Curry, Somerset, occupied as a…
KJV applied to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority for compensation under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012 in respect of sexual abuse inflicted on her by her father over five years, between the ages of 13…
Mr Fitzgerald was sentenced to life imprisonment on 7 May 2010 for a murder committed on 16 April 2009, with a minimum term of 13 years which, allowing for a qualifying curfew, expired on 14 September 2022. Following an oral…
The claimant, Ms C Merriman, had been engaged through an agency to work as a tutor for a person with special needs. Responsibility for funding appears to have shifted at one point between the NHS and the local authority, although…
Grainful Holding Limited brought proceedings in the Commercial Court against Igor Mineev in respect of a debt. In aid of those proceedings a disclosure order was made on 22 October 2024, requiring Mr Mineev to provide a range of…
The Rogano was one of the oldest and most celebrated restaurants in Glasgow, first trading in 1874 and operating continuously at 11 Exchange Place from 1935 until it closed in 2020 during the Covid-19 restrictions. Forthwell…
The applicant, the City Doctoral Researchers Association, complained to the Charity Commission of England and Wales about the conduct of three charities towards its members: the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher…
The applicant husband, Mr James Copinger-Symes, and the first respondent wife, Ms Maria-Christina Perez De La Sala, married on 24 October 1998 and separated in July 2017. Divorce proceedings began in August 2017, decree nisi was…
The appellant, M, a young person represented by his parent, was a Year 11 pupil at an academy school. His attendance was minimal: in the academic year from September 2023 he attended for only 17 sessions, or 8.5 days, three of…
The appellant, Mr David Lyons, was the trial advocate for Mr Robert Webb, who stood trial with two co-defendants on a two-count indictment alleging conspiracy to import controlled drugs. All three had pleaded not guilty and the…
The claimant, Maire S.p.A., an Italian company, guaranteed the performance of three contracts by which its subsidiary Tecnimont S.p.A. and Tecnimont's Russian subsidiary MT Russia LLC agreed to build the Kingisepp-2 ammonia…
The applicant, Mr Anandpreet Powar, was the sole director and sole shareholder of Drinks 4 Less (UK) Limited, a wholesaler of wine, beer, spirits and other alcoholic beverages registered for VAT from 5 September 2011 and…
The appellant worked for the National Farmers' Union as a facility services handyperson, initially as an agency worker and then as an employee, from late 2019 until his dismissal on 7 February 2020. He said he had uncovered…
Intralinks Inc, a US provider of virtual data rooms, supplied services to Nexans SA, a French cable company, for "Project Otto" under a contract made on 2 or 3 October 2024. Two competing work orders existed. The first, sent by…
Mr Martin Gilmore claimed Personal Independence Payment. He suffers from chronic graft versus host disease, steroid induced osteoporosis, Sicca syndrome and Raynaud's, conditions which, on the evidence before the tribunal…
The applicant, Damien Terry, made a data subject access request to Creditlink Account Recovery Solutions Limited, a private company which he said was processing his personal data without his explicit consent. When the request was…
The applicant, Dean Wilson, submitted a subject access request to Lancashire Constabulary in March 2026. Dissatisfied with the way it was handled, he complained to the Information Commissioner on 6 May 2026, the complaint being…
The claimant, Mr A Bindi, brought claims of unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal and race discrimination against Metropolitan Thames Valley in the employment tribunal in December 2020. With a full merits hearing listed for…
The parties are the parents of G, a seven-year-old girl who has a congenital complete heart block, an implanted cardiac pacemaker and a school care plan overseen by a cardiologist and specialist nurse; the mother says G has…
The applicant, Gulraze Akhtar, complained to the Information Commissioner on 14 April 2026 about Marsh Wall Limited, alleging personal data breaches, failures in identity verification procedures, missing KYC documentation, and…