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Rob Mundy
Business & Property
26/06/2020

Statutory declarations by video link

In the article below, Rob Mundy explains why you can make a statutory declaration by video link. Key points: Because of doubts about whether para 9 of the Temporary Insolvency Practice Direction is effective, it is worthwhile considering whether...
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Family
22/06/2020

Update from the Financial Remedy Court

On Wednesday 17th June 2020, St Philips Family Team had the pleasure of hosting three specialist Financial Remedy Judges, to provide an update from the Financial Remedy Court. For those unable to attend, the session was recorded and is now available...
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Family
18/06/2020

Family Law Podcast – Evidence in Cases Involving the Sexual Abuse of Children

St Philips Family Team is pleased to bring you the first in a series of podcasts, focusing around public law proceedings. In this podcast we will hear from Susan Todd, Julie Moseley and Emma Williamson on the subject of Evidence in Cases Involving...
Colin Baran
Personal Injury
16/06/2020

Of Causation and Coronavirus – Are Covid-19 Injury Claims Likely to Succeed?

As the world gradually gets back to work, there can be little doubt that the employer’s duty to provide for their employees a safe system of work, safe workplace and protective equipment must now include a requirement to risk assess and to take...
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Personal Injury
08/06/2020

Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2020] EWHC 1415 (QB): A glimmer of hope for secondary victims?

The law relating to secondary victims, who suffer psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing a shocking event, has long been an area of contention. Since the seminal case of Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1992] AC 310 and the...
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Crime
04/06/2020

10th Amendment to CPD – Key Developments To Bench Warrants and s86A Courts Act 2003

Practice Directions (“the Directions”) entered into force on 13th May 2020. Its entrance may have been easily missed having come about while the country observes a new-normal of remote hearings and the beginnings of socially-distanced trials....
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Personal Injury
04/06/2020

How about a trip in the park?

In Barlow v Wigan MBC [2020] EWCA Civ 696 the CA has decided that a footpath in a public park constructed and belonging to the Council since the 1930s was a highway maintainable at public expense. The Claimant had tripped over tree root along the...
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Crime
03/06/2020

Debut Social Distancing Trial hailed a success by St Philips member

Conducting trials in the new climate posed by Covid 19 is nothing to worry about, but needs meticulous preparation, says a member of St Philips, who has defended in one of the first Social Distancing Measures trial in the country. He said the trial,...
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