The long-awaited Review of Expenses and funding of civil litigation (The Taylor Report) was published on 11 September 2013. This independent review by the former Sheriff Principal of Glasgow and Strathkelvin, James Taylor, began in March 2011 and culminated in a report detailing 85 recommendations that are designed to improve ‘access to justice in a …
As part of the European Commission’s continued commitment to product safety, the Commission has proposed a product safety and market surveillance package for ‘safer products and more fair play in the internal market’. The aim is two-fold: primarily, strengthening consumer protection with a new Regulation on Consumer Product Safety (COM (2013) 78). Secondly, rationalising and …
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Recent cases have illustrated a growing trend of third parties, often themselves involved in litigation, seeking to obtain documents not only from the court file, but also at trial, in relation to other similar or related litigation. This bulletin summarises the law and practice in relation to the different categories of documents that are frequently …
On 1 July 2013, Croatia joined the European Economic Area (EEA) and, as such, Croatian citizens are now able to enter and reside in the UK without needing to acquire a visa – provided they are not an unreasonable burden on public funds. In order to remain in the UK longer than three months, they …
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Some are hailing it as a ‘landmark’ report. Other prominent figures in the business world are saying it is the ‘tipping point’ on climate change – they are talking about the Summary for Policymakers of the fifth assessment report, which was published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) at the end of September. …
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Correctly recording the name of a contracting party within written documentation sounds elementary. However, the reality is that in the modern corporate age, where companies within the same group often use very similar names to one another and further compound confusion by using generic trading names, identifying the appropriate contractual party is not so straightforward. …