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Cases: James Laughland

LOCOG v Sinfield

First High Court decision addressing issues concerning “fundamental dishonesty” within the scope of section 57 Criminal Justice & Courts Act 2015. The Claimant’s dishonesty related to his claim for commercial gardening assistance. He had claimed that he only employed a…

25/01/2018

Liverpool Victoria Insurance v Yavuz & Others

James Laughland appeared for the successful insurer in a 5-day contempt of court application against 9 Defendants. It was alleged that each had made false statements of truth in County Court personal injury claims in relation to 3 road traffic…

28/12/2017

BNM v MGN

Instructed by Atkins Thomson, Simon Browne QC, leading James Laughland, succeeded in persuading the Court of Appeal (the Master of the Rolls, with Longmore LJ and Irwin LJ) that the Senior Costs Judge was wrong to hold that the new…

14/12/2017

Miller v Associated Newspapers [2017]

Supreme Court. Newspapers’ Article 10 challenge to the payment of Additional Liabilities. James Laughland appeared as Junior Counsel for one of three Respondents in a combined leap-frog appeal brought by three newspapers (The Times, Daily Mail & Mirror) against their…

30/01/2017

Broadhurst v Tan [2016] EWCA Civ 94

Appeared for the Defendants in this expedited appeal heard before the Master of the Rolls and others concerning the issue of whether In fixed costs personal injury claims governed by CPR Pt 45 s.IIIA, costs were payable on the indemnity…

30/01/2017

Da Costa & Anr v Sargaco & Anr

James Laughland, acted for the Defendant insurer on appeal where the issue for determination was whether a Judge had been right to exclude a Claimant, against his will, from court whilst another gave his evidence. Fraud had been alleged and…

14/07/2016

Nokes v Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

A claimant in clinical negligence proceedings was able to recover in full by way of costs the premium she paid for an after-the-event insurance policy. This was the first SCCO case to consider the reasonableness of a post-LASPO clinical negligence…

29/05/2015

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