marcuscleaver · Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses v BXB [2023] UKSC 15 After a woman was attacked by an elder of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, she attempted to sue the church for damages. uklawweekly.substack.com/subscribe Music from bensound.com
marcuscleaver · Bott & Co Solicitors Ltd v Ryanair [2022] UKSC 8 How do lawyers claim their fees from a no win, no fee case? The Supreme Court explores what rights firms have over their client’s compensation. uklawweekly.substack.com/subscribe Music from bensound.com
marcuscleaver · Secretary of State for Health v Servier Laboratories [2021] UKSC 24 When it turned out that a pharmaceutical company may have lied in order to defend their patent the Secretary of State brought a case on behalf of the NHS for the delay
marcuscleaver · Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton [2021] UKSC 20 & Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21 In this double episode we look at two tort cases and reflect on the SAAMCO decision. Music from bensound.com uklawweekly.substack.com/subscribe
A defamation case raises much wider questions about the capability of the judiciary in England and Wales. Music from bensound.com
Fraudulent transactions made by a Saudi businessman left his creditors out of pocket but in this case it is the company that he was funneling the funds through that sued the bank for carrying out his instructions. At the heart of proceedings is the Quincecare
In the early 2000s a scandal erupted when it was found that a leading manufacturer of silicone breast implants had not followed regulations and therefore put a significant number of women at risk. As these sub-standard implants leaked and ruptured the number of compensation claims
In 2014 a number of newspaper articles were published that made serious allegations against the ex-husband of a former policy adviser to Gordon Brown. It turned out that those articles had no basis in fact and so this action in defamation came before the courts.
What happens when a dispute on Facebook ends up in the courts? The Stockers were once happily married but now they are divorced and Mrs Stocker made some serious accusations about her former husband on the social media platform. In this defamation case we consider
When Bianca Cameron was involved in a car accident the driver at fault could not be identified so the question became ‘who could she make a claim against?’