In the case of Cornwall Renewable Developments Ltd v Wright, Johnston & MacKenzie LLP [2022] EWHC 441 (Ch), the Scottish law firm Defendant, which has no place of business in England, failed in a jurisdiction challenge in a professional negligence action brought in England.
The UK Supreme Court has handed down its judgement in a Scottish appeal in a product liability case: Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd & Stryker UK Ltd, 2022.
Nothing captures the headlines quite like a multi-million pound court action. It all adds to the theatre of the court, doesn’t it? Albeit the parties involved were high profile individuals themselves, one just has to consider the way in which the media treated a certain $100m defamation action as mere popcorn fodder, despite the seriousness of the subject matter.
The tears and cheers of the domestic football season have come to a close. Everyone* has marked their preferred team’s successes/despairs/improvements and begun to seasonal task of scraping together smash from the big jar in the kitchen to go towards the new strip for next season. But don’t worry unduly, for it is thankfully World Cup year and we have a festival of football to tide us over until the next era-defining season…