Court of Appeal rules parking charges are not ‘penalties’
April 23, 2015The Court of Appeal has handed down judgment today in Parkingeye v Beavis [2015] EWCA Civ 402. Jonathan Kirk QC successfully represented the parking...
CPR Part 36: New Rules
April 10, 2015A new version of Part 36 of the Civil Procedure Rules now applies to offers made on or after 6 April this year. Although...
Mortgage Credit Directive Order
April 8, 2015Parliament made the Mortgage Credit Directive Order 2015 (SI 2015/910) on 25th March 2015. Copy available here MCDO. Generally, the MCDO will comes into...
Anthony Scrivener QC: 1935 – 2015
April 6, 2015Gough Square pays its respects to Anthony Scrivener QC and it was with great sadness that we received the news of his death. His...
Swift 1st Ltd v the Chief Land Registrar CA judgment
April 1, 2015Swift 1st Ltd, represented by Josephine Hayes of Gough Square has succeeded in defeating the Chief Land Registrar's appeal. The Chief Land Registrar appealed...
Consumer Rights Bill receives royal assent
March 27, 2015The long-debated Consumer Rights Bill received royal assent yesterday (26th March 2015). A copy of the Act is available here: Consumer Rights Act 2015....
Radical Increase in Sentencing Powers for Magistrates
March 27, 2015Businesses and individuals summarily convicted of certain offences now face unlimited fines, since the previous statutory maximum of £5,000 has been lifted. Read article...
Secret Commission judgment ‘McWilliam v Norton’
March 11, 2015The Court of Appeal today handed down its long-awaited decision in McWilliam v Norton Finance. The appeal concerned the non-disclosure of commission received by...
Draft Unfair Contract Terms Guidance
March 9, 2015The Competition & Markets Authority has published Draft Unfair Contract Terms Guidance for consultation here. This is guidance on the unfair terms provisions in...
Bennion, draftsman of CCA, dies
February 18, 2015Francis Bennion, draftsman of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and author of 'Bennion on Statutory Interpretation' has died in his early 90s. Mr Bennion...
CPUT material information guidance
February 12, 2015In February the Court of Appeal handed down Judgment in Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills v PLT Anti-Marketing Limited, in which...
High Court judgment on Northern Rock agreements wrongly drafted as regulated
December 10, 2014The High Court today handed down judgment in NRAM PLC v McAdam [2014] EWHC 4174. Read the judgment here nram-plc-v-mcadam-hartley NRAM sought a declaratory...