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R (Greyhound Board of Great Britain Ltd) v Welsh Ministers [2026] EWHC 670 (Admin) What are the practical implications of this case? The ruling reinforces the constitutional divide between the courts and the legislature. It explains that the scheme and framework of the Government of Wales Act 2006 (GWA 2006) embody that separation of powers, and that any judicial attempt to recognise and enforce a common law obligation on Welsh Ministers to consult prior to introducing legislation in the Senedd would trespass upon that boundary. This is not a departure from established principle; case law has already upheld comparable rules for lawmakers in Scotland and at Westminster. However, this is the first express confirmation of the position for Welsh lawmakers, and the first time this dimension of the GWA 2006 has been analysed in such depth. The court examined earlier
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Zalina Kanametova v OSG Records Management [ Europe] Limited [2026] EWHC 1196 ( Comm) Incentive agreement Judge Neil Cadwallader of the Commercial Court, King’s Bench Division, within the High Court of England and Wales, held that the LCIA arbitrator’s decision was rightly issued on evidence showing the long-term incentive agreement ( LTI) said to guarantee a bonus to claimant Zalina Kanametova was not binding because it had been ‘fraudulently backdated’. As a result, the LCIA arbitrator properly determined there was no jurisdiction over Kanametova’s claim for a USD 1.3 million bonus against the respondent, Cyprus-based OSG Records Management ( Europe) Ltd. (referred to as OSG). Kanametova served as general director of OSG’s subsidiary, OSG Records Management Centre LLC (referred to as OSG Russia), from 2011–18. She contended that in 2015 she executed the LTI, which included an arbitration clause, and that it was also signed by...
PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights-28 May 2026 In this issue: Clinical negligence Employer’s liability Claims involving a fatality Issues with service Other PI & Clinical Negligence News Lexis Nexis® Quantum Portal Lex Talk® PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Lexis Nexis® Webinars Useful information Clinical negligence County Court allows clinical negligence claim for delayed stroke diagnosis In Dakin v South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] Lexis Citation 1552, the County Court entered judgment for the claimant in a clinical negligence action centred on stroke causation. The defendant accepted a breach of duty for not arranging 24‑hour electrocardiogram monitoring after the 15 January 2016 consultation, but maintained that this omission did not cause the claimant’s stroke on 21 July 2016. The court determined the claimant experienced paroxysmal atrial...
The Master of the Rolls and the Minister of State for Justice have approved the 195th Practice Direction ( PD) Update, expanding the reach of the Damages Claim Portal ( DCP) in CPR PD 51ZB so that specified non-monetary claims-termed ‘ Other Remedy Claims’-can be lodged online alongside a principal damages claim, provided both sides have legal representation, rather than relying on paper filing. It further includes within scope disputes concerning unfair relationships under the Consumer Credit Act 2006, extending the update’s application. This reform shifts matters presently dealt with on paper into a digital workflow to enhance efficiency, aligning connected remedies with the same online route as the main damages claim. The amendments take effect on 27 May 2026. The additional category spans three remedies: injunctions, declarations and...
In brief Limbu v Dyson, alleging forced labour within Dyson’s Malaysian supply network, settled before trial The proceedings posed novel issues about whether UK companies may owe a duty of care to workers in overseas supply chains The Supreme Court’s refusal of Dyson’s forum non‑convenience challenge signalled a judicial readiness to scrutinise human rights harms abroad The claim also advanced unjust enrichment, contending Dyson effectively profited from exploitation Although Dyson denies liability, the settlement signals an important acceptance of responsibility and may still deliver key outcomes pursued through strategic litigation: remedy, accountability, industry change and pressure for legislative reform What happened in Limbu v Dyson? In 2022, twenty‑four Nepalese and Bangladeshi migrant workers issued a High Court claim against Dyson over alleged abuses while working in two Malaysian factories making components for the Dyson supply chain. After years of wrangling over forum, a January 2026 ruling that the case should be heard in the UK...
In this edition: Key PI & Clinical Negligence developments Costs Damages Claims involving fraud and fundamental dishonesty Lexis Nexis® PI & Clinical Negligence Quantum Database Lexis Nexis® Quantum Portal Lex Talk®PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Lexis Nexis® Webinars Useful information Key PI & Clinical Negligence developments Coronavirus ( COVID-19) jab injury claimants seek compensation reforms: Law360 reports that, on 9 April 2026, a group suing Astra Zeneca over deaths and injuries allegedly arising from vaccine side effects voiced hopes that the pandemic inquiry will advise changes to the country’s vaccine compensation scheme. See News Analysis: Coronavirus ( COVID-19) jab injury claimants seek compensation reforms. Lost years claims following CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals [2026] UKSC 5: John‑ Paul Swoboda KC, Deputy Head of 12KWB, evaluates the landscape after the...
CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: What was decided and what further issues arise? When the claimant entered the world, she sustained profound brain damage due to hypoxia, arising from negligent medical care. After a trial before Ritchie J, she received a capital award of £6,866,615 together with periodical payments of £394,940 p.a. Within that figure sat £160,000 for earnings lost up to age 29, which both sides accepted reflected her life expectancy. It was further common ground that she would have achieved GCSEs and some higher-level qualifications leading to remunerated work. Nevertheless, Ritchie J declined to grant any damages for lost earnings in the 'lost years', reasoning that the injury occurred at birth and the claimant was a young child; Croke v Wiseman [1982] 1 WLR 71 ( CA) was binding authority establishing that claims for lost years earnings cannot be...
Close to fifty claimants, reporting harm or loss following the jab, are urging the UK COVID-19 Inquiry to set out recommendations that would clear the path for alterations to the Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. The inquiry is scheduled to publish its next report on 16 April 2026. Representing them, Sarah Moore of Leigh Day said the present programme fails to offer prompt or sufficient assistance to people seriously injured or bereaved because of vaccine side effects, and that her clients expect clear, decisive proposals for reform. She further argued that a modern, fair and properly resourced payment scheme would not only give practical help to those already affected, but also reinforce public confidence in vaccination programmes by making sure that rare adverse events are addressed with compassion, accountability and a proportionate level of care......
Atuanya v Ministry of Defence [2026] EWHC 758 ( KB) What are the practical implications of the case? Practitioners who manage claims involving allegations of fundamental dishonesty will find the court’s examination of error, overstatement and deceit, set against psychiatric harm, be of marked interest......
PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights—9 April 2026 In this issue: Key PI & Clinical Negligence developments Road traffic accidents Psychiatric and occupational stress Public authorities and the state Product liability Scottish claims Other PI and Clinical Negligence news New content Lexis Nexis® Quantum Portal Lex Talk®PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Lexis Nexis® Webinars Key PI & Clinical Negligence developments Eighteenth edition of the Judicial College Guidelines is published The 18th edition of the Judicial College Guidelines has now been released, following the 17th in 2024. It remains the primary reference for practitioners and courts when assessing general damages in personal injury and clinical negligence claims. The figures have been adjusted for inflation, by reference to the Retail Prices Index as at August 2025. See: LNB News...
Senior Costs Judge Jason Rowley held in the High Court that the mining company was entitled to inspect the terms AM Strachan & Co struck with Puddick when the firm agreed to act for him in claims about alleged media leaks. ENRC struck a settlement agreement with the SFO, Puddick and John Gibson, an ex-prosecutor at the agency and now a partner at Cohen & Gresser, in October 2024. As part of that deal, ENRC agreed to cover Puddick's own legal costs. ' The law is clear,' said Judge Rowley in an oral ruling. Retainer paperwork is simply not privileged. ' They record terms of agreement, not advice,' the judge added. Nicholas Bacon KC of 4 New Square argued on behalf......
MIM v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust [2026] EWHC 562 ( KB) What are the practical implications of this case? In reaching her conclusion, HHJ Evans stressed that, although Paul does not rule out secondary victim claims arising from clinical negligence, viability hinges on whether the court treats the event observed as an accident or a medical crisis. That assessment is fact-specific in every case. Even so, the ruling demonstrates that the courts will continue to apply Paul strictly, and comparable secondary victim claims can expect firm resistance from defendants. Against that backdrop, claimant lawyers should examine the facts of any prospective secondary victim claim with care and consider how, if at all, it can be distinguished from Paul. In particular, this review ought to include analysing whether it can credibly be said that the secondary victim witnessed an ‘accident’ rather than a...
Mazur and another v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP and another ( Chartered Institute of Legal Executives and others, intervening) [2026] EWCA Civ 369 What are the practical implications of the case? Many across the profession are likely to applaud the outcome and the reversal of the High Court’s ruling. That said, the sector should pay close attention to Lady Justice Andrews’ caution. Where, in truth, litigation is carried on by an unauthorised individual, other than for and on behalf of an authorised person, an offence is committed. The judge is plainly alluding to the LSA 2007, s 14, which criminalises undertaking a reserved legal activity without entitlement. Beyond that warning, the judgment leaves several issues unresolved. There is still no settled meaning of ‘conduct of litigation’. The Court of Appeal considered that, on the submissions made, they were not sufficiently assisted to craft a...
In this issue: New PI & Clinical Negligence content Key PI & Clinical Negligence developments Clinical negligence Costs Claims involving fraud and fundamental dishonesty Public authorities and the state Litigation Evidence and disclosure Other PI & Clinical Negligence news Lexis Nexis® Quantum Portal Lex Talk® PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Lexis Nexis® Webinars Useful information New PI & Clinical Negligence content The PI & Clinical Negligence team unveils a new suite of videos created with Osmosis ( Elsevier), providing crisp, accessible medical overviews to help practitioners rapidly comprehend injuries and illnesses and progress claims more effectively: Mesothelioma—causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology Post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD)—causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology Somatic symptom disorder—causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology Rotator cuff tear—causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology Carpal tunnel syndrome—causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology Cauda equina syndrome—causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology Compartment syndrome—causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment & pathology ......
JXX (a Protected Party by his Litigation Friend ABB) v Archibald II [2026] EWHC 630 ( SCCO) What are the practical implications of this case? This Senior Courts Costs Office decision is non-binding and carries persuasive weight only. Nevertheless, many District Judges are likely to adopt its approach, as it issues from the Senior Costs Judge and there is no competing binding authority. For defendants contesting the agency element of an invoice, the judgment discourages comparing the work an instructed solicitor might have undertaken with the hypothetical fees they would have charged. A 25% uplift was deemed reasonable and proportionate on the facts. However, what is reasonable and proportionate remains case specific. In JXX, the bill of costs stood just below a million pounds, with approximately a quarter of a million pounds claimed for experts’ fees. By contrast, in lower value...
Ramsdale v Ditta and others [2026] EWHC 544 ( KB) What are the practical implications of this case? Applications to retract admissions fall within CPR 14, which underwent a major overhaul and streamlining in October 2023. Both the CPR and case law place marked emphasis on admissions because they dispose, for the purposes of the proceedings, of the points they cover, cutting expense and enabling the parties to concentrate on the matters that remain live; accordingly, the bar for granting permission is, and ought to be, relatively elevated. The courts have time and again condemned so-called expert shopping, where a party turns to a second expert in the same speciality merely because they dislike the first expert’s opinion. In this dispute, the defendant resorted to a second nursing expert only because the first withdrew from all further medico-legal work. The court did not...
PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights—26 March 2026 In this edition: Clinical negligence Employer’s liability Abuse and criminal injuries Claims involving a mentally incapacitated claimant Catastrophic claims Limitation Part 36 offers Costs Other PI news New and updated content Lexis Nexis® Quantum Portal Lex Talk® PI & Clinical Negligence: a Lexis® Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts Lexis Nexis® Webinars Useful information Clinical negligence Clinical Negligence Bill advances to second reading in the House of Commons. Introduced by Catherine Mc Kinnell MP under the Ten- Minute Rule, this Private Members’ Bill would bring in a fixed recoverable costs regime for specified clinical negligence claims, oblige periodic reviews of cost thresholds, make amendments to the Law Reform ( Personal Injuries) Act 1948, and require a report on reform options for...
Petroleum Exploration ( PVT) Ltd v Frontier Holdings Ltd and another company [2026] EWHC 56 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? The judgment strengthens the Fiona Trust presumption in the specific setting of settlement agreements concluded to resolve earlier contractual disputes. In particular, where parties insert a fresh, broadly worded arbitration clause into a settlement agreement, the working assumption is that it is intended to operate as a single ‘one‑stop’ route for resolving all future disputes arising under the settlement, in the absence of unequivocally clear carve‑outs (see Fiona Trust Holding Corp v Privalov [2007] UKHL 40). When drafting or interpreting such arbitration clauses, parties and their legal representatives should: assume that the arbitration clause in the settlement agreement is the operative dispute resolution provision for any dispute between the parties concerning the implementation of, or alleged breach of, the...
Mohammed v Ali and another [2026] EWHC 401 ( KB) What are the practical implications of the case? This judgment distils key rules for addressing contested assertions about a person’s ability to conduct litigation, with particular relevance to Traumatic Brain Injury ( TBI) claims. It consolidates earlier authorities which, as the judge at first instance observed, were ‘ad hoc’, with ‘significant differences’. The court delivers structured guidance for situations where one side contends there is a want of litigation capacity, yet that contention is challenged by another party, raised by the court itself, or undermined by conflicts within that party’s own evidence. Ought the court appoint a litigation friend on a precautionary footing, or instead fix a preliminary hearing to determine capacity as a discrete issue? The clear and succinct response is that, unless the opponent can show concrete prejudice, the question of...
Soprim Construction SARL v The Republic of Djibouti [2026] EWHC 418 ( Comm) What are the practical implications of this case? Although DPW’s bid did not succeed, the ruling reinforces that, when faced with security applications in these settings, the court will decide only after a fact-specific, contextual assessment of the individual case. As Waksman J emphasised, there is no blanket rule that a party added to proceedings can never be a ‘ Defendant’. Equally, there is no automatic position that such a party must always be treated as one. The court will take into account a range of considerations, which are not exhaustive, including the following: the character and purpose of the ‘claim’ pursued by the respondent to the security application who or what the claim is directed at the identity and nature of parties in the case other than the...
The Parties listed at Schedule 1 to the N244 v Kroll Trustee Services [2026] EWHC 216 ( Ch) What are the practical implications of this case? This ruling offers clear direction on how the court may deploy its discretion to order pre-action disclosure in disputed debt restructurings. Creditors can take increased comfort about securing such relief, and counterparties should think more carefully about providing restructuring transaction documents voluntarily at the pre-action stage in comparable situations. Information asymmetries in restructuring disputes The court treated the imbalance of information between the applicants and Kroll/the ad hoc group (the latter expected to be added as defendants in due course) as, in itself, a factor weighing in favour of disclosure. It concluded that ordering pre-action disclosure would cause minimal disruption to Kroll while materially assisting the applicants in shaping their case. Limited classes of documents for which disclosure is...
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This Practice Note This Practice Note reviews mechanisms used in settling litigation. A Tomlin order consists of a consent order paired with a schedule. It operates to stay proceedings on terms that have been agreed. The provisions contained in the schedule may remain confidential. This Practice Note describes the scope of confidentiality attaching to the schedule and sets out how it differs from a standard consent order. Sample wording for a Tomlin order is included, alongside links to precedents, as well as guidance on court approval. It also addresses varying, setting aside and enforcing a Tomlin order, including the considerations the court will take into account when handling applications for each. Further guidance is provided on interpreting and applying the relevant provisions of the CPR; however, some courts and divisions impose very specific requirements for both drafting and approval, and for approaching the schedule and confidentiality issues. Accordingly, you must consider the particular rules and court guide provisions in the forum where your claim is proceeding when drawing up the Tomlin order...
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