Sentences with phrase «defence to a claim brought»

The issue was whether the principle provided a defence to a claim brought by a company involved in a fraud, against a third party, in respect of losses suffered as a result of the fraud.

The successful defence to a claim brought against developers by contractors in respect of a development project

Not exact matches

We are currently claimed to be eyeing a deal to sign one of Smalling or former Red Devil Jonny Evans this month in order to bring stability to our shaky defence, but I'm not sure the former would bring much of an upgrade at all.

This animation from the Medical Defence Union (MDU) calls for legal reform to bring fairer compensation for medical claims.

Although some might claim that the series have dropped some of its entertaining gameplay aspect in the latest releases such as All 4 One, which focused heavily on multiplayer aspects, or Full Frontal Assault which turned into a more Tower Defence type of Ratchet & Clank game, or the Playstation Move Heroes which brought the Move into play and, well, it wasn't the Ratchet & Clank we came to love.

Conducting the defence of a multi-million pound whistleblowing claim brought by a senior employee of a UK retail bank which involved investigation of all allegations, liaising with the regulator, liaising with the police in relation to criminal prosecutions, and defending the employment litigation brought by the relevant employee.

[44] In summary, the plaintiff has met the burden of proof required, albeit not by a large margin, but I am satisfied on balance that considering the potential damages that could be awarded for the plaintiff's claim and the complications raised by the minimal damage and worker - worker defence, the plaintiff had sufficient reason to bring the action in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.

[1] The case demonstrates how challenging it can be ``... to bring order to the chaos which litigants in person invariably — and wholly understandably — manage to create in putting forward their claims and defences...» and it also shows how very difficult it is ``... to shift intransigent parties off the trial track onto the parallel track of mediation.»

Advising BP in its successful defence of English High Court litigation proceedings brought by a group of Colombian landowners claiming for environmental damage to their properties allegedly caused by the construction of an oil pipeline.

Linklaters and Deloitte have pointed the finger at each other in their defences against the professional negligence claim brought by former Arsenal shareholder Lady Nina Bracewell - Smith over the sale of her stake in the football club to current majority owner Stan Kroenke.

By its decision in McDonald, the Court of Appeal has provided a degree of certainty as to the position of human rights arguments as defences to residential possession claims brought in the private sphere.

If they choose to maintain their practice coverage there is limited defence cost coverage for claims brought against corporate counsel by their employer [See Endorsement No. 11 of the LawPRO policy].

Most recently, Rachel has been appointed to act as Special Advocate for one of the Claimants in judicial review proceedings brought against the Secretary of State for Defence and the Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs by three Afghan nationals claiming that they worked for the Defendants in Afghanistan as covert human intelligence sources.

The policy will also now extend the $ 250,000 per claim and in the aggregate defence - only coverage under the endorsement for «Claims Brought by CORPORATE EMPLOYERS» to include coverage for seconded lawyers in those circumstances.

Other tactics that are not that unusual are for the tenant to make a small payment towards the arrears, perhaps to bring the level below the required amount for a mandatory order or to claim that they have a defence or counterclaim but are unable to attend court due to ill health.

He commenced his career as a criminal defence / regulatory lawyer but his practice has evolved to the point he now specialises in the resolution of catastrophic and complex injury claims brought against private and public bodies, individuals and their respective insurers.

However, the High Court has held on more than one occasion that seeking to bring claims or advance defences that were rejected in an earlier arbitration can amount to abuse of process (Michael Wilson & Partners Ltd v Sinclair [2012] EWHC 2560 (Comm); OMV Petrom SA v Glencore International AG [2014] EWHC 242 (Comm)-RRB-.

He then brought a claim in the Employment Tribunal, arguing that the Ministry of Defence had breached its obligations to provide equal treatment to agency workers under the Agency Workers Regulations 2010 and the Temporary Agency Worker Directive.

At the other extreme, it appears that in a case to which a statutory limitation period does apply the defence of laches can not succeed where there has been mere and even lengthy delay but the claim is still brought within the statutory period (see P&O Nedlloyd at para 61 and Halsbury's Laws of England, 4th ed vol 16 (2) at 910).

In Delta's Defence to the Part 20 contribution claim brought by IMI, Delta denied any concealment and therefore adopted IMI's case that TP's case was indeed time barred.

Romanova v Sloutsker: for the appellant Russian journalist on behalf of Media Law Defence Initiative in her challenge to Court of Appeal against jurisdiction judgment -LRB-[2015] EWHC 545 (QB)-RRB- permitting the libel claim of a Russian oligarch to be brought in the English courts.

Since the defendants had invited the estate to bring its claim, had moved to add the estate to the action, and had not raised a limitation period defence, the plaintiffs were found to have no right to rely on the defendants» limitation period defence to deny the adding of the estate as a party.

Abbey Forwarding Ltd David acted for Abbey and its Directors in various aspects of this long running litigation (including the successful defence of the misfeasance claim brought against Abbey's directors and the successful challenge to excise and VAT assessments raised against Abbey)