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Department for Transport publishes Vnuk consultation on options for amending domestic insurance law
Until yesterday the most recent development in the Vnuk saga was the publication in June of the European Commission “Roadmap” which made suggestions for the possible adaptation of Motor Insurance…
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A "Holistic" Approach to Defect under the Consumer Protection Act 1987
On 6 December 2016, in Wilkes v DePuy International Limited, the High Court gave judgment on the question of ‘defect’ in relation to metal-on-metal hip prostheses, managed under a group litigation…
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Futile devices – the Court’s approach to anti-oral variation clauses
All manner of contracts contain clauses to the effect that the contract in question represents the entirety of the terms agreed by the parties. Such clauses are often supplemented by clauses which…
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The soft market in general insurance: is a capacity-cull or evolutionary extinction coming?
Last month, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) produced a number of publications addressing the state of the general insurance (“GI”) market, and what consequences might flow from a major…
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Enforcement of a foreign judgment: High Court upholds public policy defence
Helen Coates, who acted for the successful appellant, Laserpoint Ltd, looks at this rare example of the court in England upholding the public policy defence to prevent enforcement of a judgment of a…
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A charter for untruth?
On 20 July 2016, the Supreme Court handed down its judgment in Versloot Dredging BV and another (Appellants) v HDI Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG and Others, dispelling the assumption that the…
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Assessing and addressing the impact of Vnuk
On 8 June 2016 the European Commission published a ‘Roadmap’ document reviewing the ruling in Vnuk and raising a number of possible adaptions to the scope of Directive 2009/103/EC on motor insurance…
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Enterprise Act 2016
In our previous Briefing Notes on the Enterprise Bill 2015 we discussed the detailed provisions of the Bill that relate to the late payment of insurance claims. Since our last Briefing Note in…
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Riot compensation does not cover consequential loss
The Supreme Court has allowed the MOPC’s appeal and confirmed that the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 created a self-contained statutory riot compensation scheme which did not extend to cover consequential…
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Bisphenol A and Endocrine Disruptors – A Global Threat?
How much do we really know about the chemicals we are exposed to in food packaging, and might there be an association with hormone disruption, fertility issues and cancer?
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