Daniel Crook

Hundreds of thousands of businesses may be a step closer to receiving pay-outs from their business insurers, following a recent Court of Appeal test case revolving around the cover afforded under business interruption insurance and their application under...

Microsoft and Google face huge pay-outs for alleged Anti-Competitive practices. UK consumers and businesses will be interested to learn the outcome of two multi-billion pound class actions being initiated against these...

At the time of writing, the new Government is seeking to negotiate very turbulent domestic waters. Fittingly, included within the King’s speech detailing the intended new laws to hit the statute books provision has been made for a new Crime &...

“It’s good to talk”………Why Mediation in Civil Disputes should increasingly be your first resort, rather than your last. What is Mediation? As you may know, Mediation is a voluntary...

As Parliament is dissolved pre-election – what happens to legislation in the process of being put on the Statute Books? A snap election has been called with all eyes on the upcoming debates – leaving little time for the government’s...

The General & Municipal Workers Union, reported to have in excess of 560,000 members in the UK across nearly all industrial sectors, has recently stepped up its actions against Amazon. It has issued a Class Action “Inducement Claim” in the...

Government Intentions There has been much recent speculation in the press and amongst opposing politicians as to whether the intended Renters Reform Act will receive Royal ascent, without having been watered down by a raft of potential changes. To recap,...

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has had a busy time in 2024. In February permission has been granted to proceed to Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen in a Class Action seeking up to £3billion in damages for users holding Facebook accounts between 2016 and 2023. ...

Insolvency experts at PwC believe that around 30,000 businesses will become insolvent in 2024. The hardest areas to be hit are likely to be in the hospitality, transportation, manufacturing and storage sectors. No business is free from risk, with even blue...

The recent ITV series Mr Bates vs The Post Office has drawn to the Public’s attention the fact that over 900 postmasters were wrongly criminally convicted of theft and false accounting as a consequence of the accounting defects within the...

This new Act makes provision about an employee’s entitlement to unpaid leave should they have caring responsibilities. The Act received Royal Assent on 24 May 2023 The Act introduces a statutory entitlement to grant employees, who are providing or...

I think it is fair to say that most people are surprised when I advise that the court has the power to go behind the deceased’s will, even where there was nothing wrong with it. This is despite the principles of Inheritance (Provision for Family and...

Those who read my previous short article will be aware of the stay on possession claims imposed by CPR 55.29 was due to end on Sunday 23 August. At the mast minute, on 20 August 2020 the Lord Chancellor directed the Master of the Rolls and the Civil...

From 25 June 2020 the present stay of domestic possession proceedings which came in following the lockdown is going to be extended until 23 August 2020. Part 55 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 (CPR) will be amended meaning possession...