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Darnley v Croydon Health Service NHS Trust: delineating duty and breach

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Case Note: Darnley v Croydon Health Service NHS Trust [2018] UKSC 50, [2018] 3 WLR 1153 A. Introduction1 Darnley v Croydon Health Service NHS Trust2 (‘Darnley‘) deals with the deceptively simple trio of negligence — duty of care, breach, and causation. In recent years, some judges have conflated them in a composite assessment by over-specifying the content of […]

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Hoffmann vs Sumption – Reconciling the battle on contractual interpretation?

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Introduction What is more exciting than a legal tirade between two of the most prominent English judges? Contractual interpretation is the bread-and-butter work of the commercial courts. Whilst it does not attract huge attention in an undergraduate contract law syllabus, its paramount importance in commercial contracting certainly deserves the ink spilled by the duo. In

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Creating easements with ease: Re Ellenborough Park test revisited

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Case note: Regency Villas Title Ltd v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd [2018] UKSC 57 A. Introduction The law of easement, a seemingly dry and technical aspect of land law, has been rejuvenated in the recent UKSC case of Regency Villas Title Ltd v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd.1 Much of the confusion surrounding the law is attributed to the archaic

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