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  • legal-help

Choosing Legal Expense Insurance

What is Legal Expense Insurance? Legal Expense Insurance (“LEI”) is a form of add on cover at an additional cost to your normal building, contents or motor insurance which will…

September 10, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog
  • professional-negligence

When Ineffective Service Costs You £10,000,000

There are very stringent court rules governing how a claim form can be served, and a whole plethora of cases showing how easy it is to get this wrong.  Service…

August 31, 2021

Chun Wong

Opinion
  • supreme-court

A Solicitor’s Undertaking – The Landscape After Harcus Sinclair LLP V Your Lawyers Ltd

Undertakings An undertaking is a commitment by a solicitor to do or not do something. It can be enforced against the solicitor by the courts and failure to comply with…

August 9, 2021

Chun Wong

Opinion
  • court

Acting Promptly When Setting Aside Default Judgment

The requirement to act promptly when applying to set aside a default judgment The impact of a default judgment can be serious and steps should be taken to prevent matters…

July 28, 2021
Opinion
  • professional-negligence

Limitation In Solicitors’ Negligence – Narrowly Avoiding Liability

To successfully bring a claim against a solicitor you have to prove that they owed you a duty of care which was breached causing you foreseeable loss. What is limitation…

June 29, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog
  • wills-disputes

The Law on Testamentary Capacity After Clitheroe v Bond (2021)

A Will can be challenged and set aside if it can be shown that the deceased lacked ‘testamentary capacity’. Banks v Goodfellow (1870) The relevant legal test for establishing (testamentary)…

June 9, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog
  • court

Serving Legal Proceedings on a Partnership

An important part of civil proceedings is to ensure that service of claim forms have been effected correctly. Many litigators in their legal career will have been caught out on…

May 18, 2021
Blog
  • contract-disputes

Signing of a Legal Document

Legal documents generally require signatures to have binding effect. There are also rules on how and who can execute certain types of legal documents. There is no prescribed form or…

May 10, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog

Nuisance Communications

Nuisance communications, particularly calls can take many forms; from annoying unwanted cold sales calls to threatening/offensive calls to phishing scams. These are likely to have increased during lockdown as we…

April 9, 2021

Chun Wong

Opinion

Surveyor’s Negligence – Large v Hart [2021]

Like with any professional negligence claim, in order to bring a successful claim against a surveyor you have to prove that a duty of care owed was breached which caused…

April 6, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog
  • commercial-dispute-resolution

What is a Statutory Demand and When Can You Use It?

The issue of enforcing costs involves considering and seeking an appropriate method to satisfy a creditor’s debt, whether you have already obtained a court judgment or not. There are several…

March 2, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog
  • professional-negligence

When does loss arise in a professional negligence case?

A professional negligence claim arises where there has been breach of a contractual or tortious duty causing consequential loss. Limitation Period The limitation period in both contract and tort is…

February 23, 2021

Chun Wong

Opinion

My love for blogging!

For those who know me – they know I love to blog. Perhaps a hang up from the missed opportunity to pursue a degree in English literature rather than Law,…

January 26, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog

The importance of “subject to contract”

In the case of Joanne Properties Ltd v Moneything Capital Ltd and another [2020] EWCA Civ 1541, the Court of Appeal considered the use and effect of the words "subject...

January 19, 2021

Ruhul Ameen

Blog

Do I have a right to request a decent broadband?

More and more people are reliant on their broadband for working at home effectively, especially during the pandemic and lockdowns when the government guidance is to stress the importance of...

January 8, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog

The fall-out from UK Government coronavirus support schemes: ensuring the good-faith customer does not lose out

The coronavirus has placed an unprecedented strain on people and businesses across the UK and the world. A major concern of the UK Government, perhaps only behind public health, has...

December 15, 2020
Blog
  • privacy-claims

How does GDPR affect video surveillance (CCTV)?

There has been a growing market for video surveillance systems, such as smart video doorbells like Amazon’s Ring, which allows homeowners to keep an eye on their property and take...

December 11, 2020

Chun Wong

Opinion
  • legal-help

Does a Solicitor Owe You a Fiduciary Duty Even Before You Become a Client?

A fiduciary duty arises in a legal relationship between two parties (the fiduciary and the beneficiary) where one must act in the best interest of the other. It is based…

November 25, 2020

Chun Wong

Blog

Shareholder Disputes and how to resolve them

There are many challenges that may arise when running a business. It is important to determine these challenges promptly and find a way to resolve them without affecting the business....

October 28, 2020
Blog
  • jointly-owned-property

Severance of a Joint Tenancy – getting service right

A property owned by more than one person is held in two ways; as joint tenants or tenants in common. The distinguishing factor between them is what happens when a...

October 23, 2020

Chun Wong

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