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Medical negligence arising from morcellation

An important step has been taken by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (‘RCOG’) to ensure that all healthcare professionals considering the use of a morcellator for patients undergoing...

October 29, 2019

Blog

Hodge Jones & Allen supports CBIT’s ‘Be Seen, Not Hurt’ campaign

The Child Brain Injury Trust’s ‘Be Seen, Not Hurt’ campaign runs from Monday 28th October until Friday 1st November 2019. People across the county, as well as millions of children,…

October 28, 2019

Emma Hall

Blog

Tips for bringing a discrimination claim

Discrimination claims can be hard for employees to win. Here are some tips for bringing a discrimination claim in the Employment Tribunal: You must have a “protected characteristic,” namely age,…

October 17, 2019

Opinion

representation

Legal (Advice) Privilege Never Dies

The principle of legal advice privilege between a solicitor and their client is endorsed in both statute and common law and is a fundamental basis to ensure open and candid...

October 17, 2019

Chun Wong

Opinion

Hodge Jones & Allen’s judicial review challenge to HS2 Ltd’s Three Tunnel Design into the Euston Approaches

Hodge Jones and Allen Solicitors are representing a client in a judicial review challenge to HS2 Ltd’s failure to conduct a fresh Environmental Impact Assessment in relation to their new…

October 14, 2019

Opinion

Facebook’s privacy power-play

“Shining a light through the CLOUD: Facebook’s end to end encryption announcement is a direct challenge to US CLOUD Act and UK Crime Overseas Production Orders Act 2019” The news...

October 4, 2019

Opinion

The early notification scheme progress report for brain injured babies

The NHS Resolution report gave an update on how well NHS Resolution’s (NHSR) new scheme to quickly intervene in cases of brain injured babies. This report gives an overview of...

October 4, 2019

Opinion

The prosecution of Konstantin Vishnyak: is the Financial Conduct Authority flexing its prosecutorial muscle?

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is the conduct regulator for all financial services companies in the UK. It is also the prudential regulator for over fifty-thousand financial services companies and...

September 26, 2019

Blog

inheritance-dispute

Contingent gifts in wills

Many individuals include gifts in their wills that require an event to happen or an action to take place prior to a beneficiary inheriting (this is called a contingent gift)....

September 23, 2019

Nicola Waldman

Blog

contract-disputes
supreme-court

How can I sue my real estate agent?

People use estate agents for several reasons; buying and selling of a property, renting, management, and even for professional valuations. As a profession, they are, however, not subject to mandatory...

September 12, 2019

Chun Wong

Opinion

A dark horse with blurred lines: A brief overview of Intellectual Property and Copyright in estate planning

There has recently been a re-emergence of back and forth Copyright cases in the news involving musicians such as Katy Perry, Robin Thicke, Led Zeppelin and Ed Sheeran to name...

September 2, 2019

Blog

What is CAFCASS role in Child Arrangements proceedings?

The moment a Child Arrangements application is issued by the Courts, a copy is not only sent to the Applicant and Respondent, but also an allocated CAFCASS worker. But what...

August 29, 2019

Blog

court

Who does a section 20c order apply to?

It is common practice for freeholders to charge the legal costs incurred in dealing with determination proceedings to the leaseholders’ service charge accounts. This means that freeholders can seek reimbursement...

August 23, 2019

Opinion

What happens when the court has to decide who died first?

This week the High Court gave judgement on a probate dispute involving a battle between two step sisters. The court had to decide which parent had died first. The case…

August 15, 2019

Opinion

Requesting Court Documents By Third Parties

Last month, the Supreme Court was called upon in the case of Cape Intermediate Holdings Ltd v Dring (for and on behalf of Asbestos Victims Support Groups Forum UK (2019)…

August 6, 2019

Chun Wong

Opinion

Court of Appeal Reverses Mostyn’s Decision in Cowan: Standstill Agreements Are No Longer Invalid

Cowan v Foreman [2019] EWCA Civ 1336 For those unaware, earlier on this year a case was brought before Justice Mostyn – a judge of the Family Division of the…

August 2, 2019

Opinion

100 years for women, 40 years for me

It is quite extraordinary to think that if I was born just a generation or two ago, I would not have been legally allowed to qualify as a solicitor purely...

July 25, 2019

Chun Wong

Opinion

It’s a matter of Trust…

With distrustful spouses and threats of divorce, it is all too common a question as to how can someone protect any family inheritance from reaching the hands of a divorced...

July 24, 2019

Opinion

Family launch CrowdJustice campaign to challenge decision not to hold ‘article 2’ inquest

The family of Susan Nicholson have today launched a CrowdJustice campaign to raise funds to challenge the Coroners decision not to hold an Article 2 inquest into her death. On...

July 18, 2019

Opinion

Who died first?

The recently reported case of stepsisters asking the Court to rule whose parent died first to determine which of them should inherit, relates to the little known commorientes rule.

June 28, 2019

Nicola Waldman

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