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Solicitors Negligence; AIB Group (UK) Plc –v- Mark Redler & Co 2012
The Defendant’s solicitors acted for the bank, AIB Group and the Borrower as to a re-mortgage of £3.3 million. The solicitors were to use the mortgage advance to discharge an existing mortgage to Barclays Bank.
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Copyright claim struck out,
In Sullivan v Bristol Film Studios Ltd [2012] EWCA civ 570 the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal from a strike out of a claim for copyright. The claim was struck out as an abuse of the process of the court because the costs of fighting the dispute would be out of all proportion to the amount that the claimant was likely to recover.
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Solicitors Negligence: Solicitors retainer.
The High Court has recently handed down its judgment, in the recent professional negligence case brought by Celia Farnon against city law firm Devonshires Solicitors.