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What might the outcome have been had Mitchell been appealed to the Supreme Court?
Mitchell was no doubt a controversial decision but for whatever reason it was not appealed to the Supreme Court. Had it been, the final outcome may well have been far less draconian. As recently as 3 March 2014, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council…
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Relief from Sanctions post-Mitchell appeal
Further decisions giving guidance with regard to the Courts’ approach to applications for relief from sanctions have been coming through following the stern conclusions reached by Master Victoria McCloud and the Court of Appeal in the Mitchell case. The importance of ‘Mitchell’ as the starting…
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No relief for Mr Mitchell MP
There will be few, if any, members of the legal profession unaware of the recent decision given by the Court of Appeal in the matter of Andrew Mitchell MP v News Group Newspapers Limited [2013] EWCA Civ 1526. The decision has been reviewed, discussed, commented…
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Mitchell ‘Plebgate’ Court of Appeal Judgment handed down
Simon Browne QC and Richard Wilkinson appeared in the Court of Appeal on behalf of the Claimant in a landmark case following the Jackson Reforms namely Andrew Mitchell MP v News Group Newspapers Limited [2013] EWCA Civ 1526. Judgement was handed down today, Wednesday 27th…
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Post Jackson: any changes?
The new legal landscape has now been traversed for the best part of 6 months so what has changed? On the face of it not too much; the simple reason being the majority of the changes introduced were not retrospective and it is the cases…
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Plebgate…
I am quite sure that by now all of our followers are aware that under the new rules (with the notable, and quite frankly in my opinion cynical, exception of the Commercial Court and budgets in excess of £2m in the TCC, Mercantile and Chancery…
