Destruction of documents and adverse inferences
Adverse inferences were a common warning in my time as a criminal solicitor. The shield of silence and withholding information…
Category: Legal
Where we’re going, we don’t need any (winding up) petitions – Lancefield v Lancefield – an insight.
Lancefield v Lancefield [2002] is a distinct case that demonstrates the court’s jurisdiction to order a winding up of a…
Alternative Dispute Resolution – should it be compulsory?
The Civil Procedure Rules (the “CPR”) The CPR encourages parties to engage in alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) to resolve disputes.…
Reshaping the narrative: the changes in witness statement evidence
Traditionally, witness statements were a key component of most claims. They set out the narrative, and gave the witness the…