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Costs: Recoverability

Paul Jones considers when predictable costs apply ‘If neither fixed predictable costs nor fixed small claims track costs applied, then the only remaining option was for reasonable costs on the standard basis to be payable.’ One of the central tenets of the proposed reforms to civil legal costs is that increased use of fixed costs …
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Right Of Way: Hazards of livestock

Simon Blackburn examines livestock owners’ legal responsibilities to the public ‘The defendant was liable for his negligence in not having properly considered the risk that his cattle posed to members of the public’ The case of McKaskie v Cameron (2009) serves as an illustration that defendants to personal injury claims are just as vulnerable when …
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Liability: Beware of the dark

Emma Zeb focuses on the social benefit of an activity versus the risks of injury ‘The law of tort exists to deter negligent conduct, but it should not serve to stamp out every “iota” of risk or deter “desirable activity”.’I suspect that, for most of the 237th Castle Bromwich Scout Group, Mr Newsome was one …
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