Jones v Environcom Ltd & Anor [2009] EWHC 16 (Comm) (16 January 2009) I am asked to determine preliminary issues arising in respect of the claimant insurers' ( Insurers ) application for security for the costs of the counterclaim brought by the defendants, Environcom Li...
Case Report Kyle Bay Ltd (t/a Astons Nightclub) v Underwriters Subscribing Under Policy No. 019057/08/01 [2007] EWCA Civ 57 (07 February 2007) This is an appeal from a decision of Mr Jonathan Hirst QC, sitting as a Deputy High Court Judge in the Commercial Court, who in a reserved judgment given on 29 March 2006 ([2006] EWHC Comm 607), dismi...
Case Report Ide v ATB Sales Ltd & Anor [2008] EWCA Civ 424 (28 April 2008) These two appeals were heard together because they raise an issue as to the approach the judge was entitled to take to the determination of proof of causation where alternative mechanisms of causation...
Case Report Expandable Ltd & Anor v Rubin [2008] EWCA Civ 59 (11 February 2008) What is involved in a document being mentioned in a statement of case or witness statement or the like? If a document is so mentioned, has privilege against its inspection been waived? These are the...
Case Report Greenland Bank Ltd v American Express Bank Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 14 (27 January 2009) This is the kind of litigation that could feed the public's worst perception of lawyers and the law. Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, once described lawyers as:
… a society of men...
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