2022

Assessment of damages - Mallet finger deformity of the left index finger - 7% whole person impairment - PTSD diagnosis – Damages for domestic help - lack of evidence to support claim for handicap on the labour market

Setting Aside Default Judgment – CPR 13.3 – Whether the defence is one with a real prospect of success – Whether the defendant applied to set aside the defence as soon as reasonably practicable – Whether there is a good explanation for failing to file an acknowledgement of service within the time stipulated by the CPR – Whether the claim form was served

Setting Aside Default Judgment under CPR 13.3. - Whether the defence has a real prospect of success - If the defence has a real prospect of success, has the applicant applied to set aside the default judgment as soon as it was reasonably practicable -  Does the applicant have a good reason for not filing an acknowledgement of service within the time stipulated by the CPR

Application to amend statement of case - CPR 19.4 - Adding a defendant after the limitation period - Whether case of misidentification or misnaming - CPR 20.4 – Application to strike out claimant’s statement of claim.

Judicial Review – Whether the Claimant has established illegality – Whether the signature of the Minister was forged – Whether there was a breach of statute – Whether the actions of the Minister were Wednesbury unreasonable or irrational – Whether there is a discretionary bar of delay.

Mareva Injunction – Freezing Order – Risk of Dissipation – Non-disclosure –
Undue Hardship

Sections 2 and 6 of the Property (Rights of Spouses) Act – Whether the Claimant is a spouse as defined by the Property (Rights of Spouses) Act – Division of property – The definition of the family home – Principal family residence.

Negligence

Division of matrimonial property - Property (Rights of Spouses) Act,  sections 2, 6,

7, 13 and 14 - The family home - Other matrimonial properties – Whether wife is

Entitled to a share of the other matrimonial properties – Whether wife is entitled

To part of the business -  How to calculate wife’s interest in business which has been Sold

Medical Negligence – No evidence on behalf of the Doctor who performed the procedures – What is the duty of care owed to a patient by a person who holds himself out as a specialist – Damages