Vicarious liability of a school and expedition company on a trip abroad: the judgment of Mackay J in XVW & YZA v Gravesend Grammar School for Girls and Adventure Life Signs Ltd [2012] EWHC 575 (QB) on 13 March 2012. The question was whether a school and an expedition company were liable for the rap......

Under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 s.82 if a statutory undertaker caused or required damage to apparatus belonging to another person in the course of street repairs, whoever it was that actually did the work that constituted the damage, the statutory undertaker had to pay for the making ......

Negligence test cases. In test cases for compensation brought by the claimant company against the defendant utility company for damage caused to the claimant's ducting, it was deemed necessary for the defendant to inform the claimant of the need to remove a section of its ducting so that the clai......

Nuisance. There was a real prospect that, if the evidence were accepted, the appellant could establish at trial that the respondent had been aware of the serious ingress of water into the appellant's property and that the respondent knew that his drainage system was not satisfactory to prevent a bu......

The general practitioner's failure to immediately refer a patient suffering from bilateral sciatica to a surgeon was not negligent. On the facts, a surgeon would not have been negligent in not admitting the patient for surgery, and so it followed that the general practitioner could not be negligent......

An action by an insurance company alleging that the settlement of an earlier PI action was obtained by fraud and/or misrepresentation should not have been struck out. An insurance company appealed against a decision to strike out its claim for fraud and/or misrepresentation following the settlem......