The Court of Appeal’s judgment in Esdale v Dover District Council [2010] EWCA Civ 409 highlights the significance of a local authority’s policy when considering a claim under s.2(2) of the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957. In short, the claimant was injured when she tripped and fell on a pathway that led up to a block [...]

In Kernot v Jones [2010] EWCA Civ 578, the Court of Appeal held that Leonard Kernott was entitled to a 50% share of the home he lived in for eight years with his former girlfriend, Patricia Jones, despite the fact that he had neither paid for nor lived in it since 1993.  It was Patricia [...]

In McFarlane v Relate Avon Limited [2010] EWCA Civ 419, the Court of Appeal held that a relationship councillor sacked by Relate Avon for refusing to give sex therapy to same-sex couples was not unfairly dismissed and did not suffer discrimination on the grounds of his religion or belief under the Employment Equality (Religion or [...]

Lord Justice Dyson has been named as the 12th and final justice of the Supreme Court. Sir John Dyson was called to the Bar in 1968, took silk in 1982, was appointed to the High Court in 1993, and elevated to the Court of Appeal in 2001.  Lord Phillips, President of the United Kingdom Supreme [...]