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Darkness into day: New costs decisions

All busy litigation practitioners might do well to heed the recent decisions made by learned Costs Judge Whalan (Judgment handed down 23rd January 2026) in The Estate of Kenneth Collins v. The Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police [2026] EWHC 117 (SCCO). In July 2015 one Kenneth Collins (KC) was arrested by Officers from Thames…

Claims for money had and received

“Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek to redress them …”. (Wm Shakespeare: Queen Margaret in Henry VI, Part 3) A Deposit is paid to your builder; he fails to attend on the appointed day – the work to your intended new bathroom is never begun, let alone completed. One day…

Liability for chancel repairs

Glossary The space around a Church altar choir and sanctuary usually occupied by the clergy and choir (and lying to the East):                                                     Chancel The schism between Henry VIII and the Roman Catholic Church arising from the King’s wish to annul his marriage (to the Queen, Katherine of Aragon) which led to the dissolution of the…