27th Feb 2024
Jeremy Callman and Naomi Winston are delighted to announce the publication of a new book on LLP and Partnership Law (co-written with Corinne Staves and Elspeth Berry). LLP and Partnership Law: A legal and practical guide provides a user-friendly, practical, and accessible resource to help practitioners, students, partners and those running firms to navigate this […]
23rd Feb 2024
Jonathan Gavaghan joins Caroline Field (Fox & Partners) and Sarah Chilton (CM Murray LLP) to speak at the Association of Partnership Practitioners’ Workshop on the Professional Services Firms’ Survey to be held on 26th February 2024. The panel will analyse the APP’s recent survey and discuss trends and predictions for the future of professional services firms. […]
22nd Feb 2024
David Schmitz recently appeared for the appellant in the Court of Appeal in Campbell v NHS Business Services Authority [2023] EWCA Civ 1351, which has now been reported at [2024] Pens LR 4. The case concerned the reach of a provision in the NHS Pension Scheme Regulations 1995, which deems a person’s employment to continue […]
20th Feb 2024
Adam Stewart-Wallace has written a case note for LexisNexis on the recent case of Morina v Scherbakova [2023] EWHC 3253 (Ch), which addressed a range of issues concerning the identification of a testator’s domicile, the law applicable to the essential validity of wills, and the revocation of testamentary dispositions. The article can be read here.
19th Feb 2024
Andreas Giannakopoulos has co-authored a case comment with Adnan Khaliq on the CJEU’s recent decision in Charles Taylor Adjusting Ltd v Starlight Shipping Co, which addressed the compatibility of awards of damages for breach of jurisdiction agreements with the Brussels-Lugano framework. The article, published in the LMCLQ, examines the CJEU’s reasoning in light of its […]
14th Feb 2024
Richard Dew appeared for the Claimant in this probate claim, instructed by Nicola Bushby of Boodle Hatfield. The Judge found that two of the deceased’s children procured a will at a time when the testator had no ability to understand it. The will was set aside on the grounds of lack of capacity, want of knowledge […]
Ten Old Square will hold a live webinar with Q&A featuring James MacDougald and Thomas James. Challenging solicitors’ costs A brief review of the different regimes for assessing solicitors’ costs under ss. 70-71 Solicitors Act 1974 as understood following the Court of Appeal’s very recent decision in Kenig v Thomson Snell v Passmore [2024] EWCA […]