Nichola Evans

Ward Hadaway recently submitted a detailed response to a Ministry of Justice (MoJ) consultation on the UK’s accession to the Hague Convention 2019, encouraging the Government to sign up as soon as possible.

The recent decision in Hoegh and another v Taylor Wessing LLP and another [2022] EWHC 856 (Ch), highlights the importance of the careful choice of words used when referring to a document within a trial witness statement.

The costly consequences of a party getting too close to their expert have been spelt out in a recent case. The High Court revoked permission for the Claimants to rely on their expert in the Chirk Nuisance Group Litigation leaving them late in the litigation having to seek a new expert and begin again in terms of expert evidence.

During these unusual times, we are all having to adapt to what has become the 'new normal' and implement changes in how we carry out civil cases.

A High Court judge has strongly criticised parties' conduct in a recent case describing them as behaving like "Schoolchildren".

Our previous update set out the key changes that any witness giving evidence in the Business and Property Court from 6 April 2021 needed to know.

Over the past two years we have seen more and more court hearings take place online as the courts adjusted the ways in which they operated to ensure that hearings could still take place during the pandemic.

A recent High Court decision held that onerous and unfair terms within the suppliers standard terms could not be enforced against a commercial customer.