I have come across two cases on the law of negligence that, even in the current climate of the compensation culture, judges have resisted the need to depart from the general principles of negligence.
In Parker v TUI UK Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 1261, the claimant was injured when taking part in a tobogganing event in [...]
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Alice Clarke, a student on the Bar Vocational Course, has had her exam marks upgraded after refusing to accept the results of her final examinations. This legal battle took four years after she claimed that the low marks for her oral examinations in advanced criminal litigation and negotiation were because of disagreements with her tutors [...]
Rolls Royce Plc v Unite the Union [2009] EWCA Civ 387 is authority for the proposition that a length of service criterion within the selection matrix for redundancy was not in breach of the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations 2006, in that the inclusion of the criterion was a “proportionate means of achieving a [...]
