Stephen Gerlis
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Driving lessons
Case law about liability for road traffic accidents is sparse. Now, oddly, within the space of a month, no fewer than four cases have been reported concerning driving habits. They are instructive both for those of us who are drivers and also for those who have to deal with the ...
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Solicitors are still having difficulty with service of proceedings
The Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) are generally seen as being a success. True, they have not brought down the cost of litigation, but they have given a degree of certainty as to procedure. The fact that solicitors are still falling foul of the CPR when it comes to service by ...
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Consumer challenges to bank charges and loan agreements
I have this recurring image of an enormous office populated by eye-shaded clerks sitting at narrow desks, poring through every word, sentence and paragraph of current consumer legislation, looking for some infinitesimal sign of weakness, some feeble link in the chain of rules and regulations.