Supermarket bosses who list their rock hard fruit as “perfectly ripe” should be forced to eat it in front of us all. The liars!

The King has approved the appointment of six Lord and Lady Justices of Appeal. He has been pleased to approve the appointments of Mrs Justice Cockerill, Mr Justice Dove, Mr Justice Foxton, Mrs Justice May, Mr Justice Miles and Mrs Justice Yip. www.judiciary.uk/appointments...

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#Spring2025

More & different problems arise where the claimant is represented by solicitors, since the solicitors may be acting without authority and thus in breach of warranty. See my earlier article (2024) 140 LQR 250 on the termination of authority in supervening mental incapacity situations!

are null and void (so says the claimant). Here the claimant had represented himself in the earlier proceedings in question - they were against the Financial Ombudsman Service. CA decided claimant did have capacity. Some discussion of CPR r 21.3 and its effect. (cont'd)

Johnston v Financial Ombudsman Service [2025] EWCA Civ 551: www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC.... Discusses mental incapacity to commence proceedings - if found, the potential consequence are that all steps taken in relation to the litigation and the orders granted by courts in that litigation (cont'd)

My article on the role of mutual consent justifications in agency law now out in the OJLS, available open access!

academic.oup.com/ojls/article...

Alexander Georgiou and I have co-authored a paper-- 'Are Equitable Remedies Discretionary?'-- published in the latest issue of the Journal of Equity.

The issue includes a lecture by Justice Leeming, Supreme Court of NSW.

Pre-prints: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

cite as (2025) 18 J Eq 246.

I’ve written something on punishment and its scope within private law. It’s open access.

Link: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

Those are some really strange looking eggs

So sad to see this in place of Honest Stationery.

I am not sure the UK population will like the idea of NEWater.

Will remind you in June!

My review of Lionel Smith's The Law of Loyalty (OUP 2023) has now come out in the MLR! Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywll...

Great documentary. The POB style in full display. Particularly great in Raymonda, not even a ballet I like much.

An old favourite. "At times it felt as if [counsel's] approach to the authorities was akin to poking a long dead fire with a stick in the hope that it would re-light" Deane v Coutts [2018] EWHC 1657 (Ch)

Finally some updates on leasehold reform from the new government.
questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

Off to Cambridge next week to talk about whether parents can (ie have the legal power to) sell their children's property! Come by if you are around. www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events...

Probably works for humans too.

Oh no. Poor B. Give her lots of love. PS she isn’t elderly!

Hello to all, I’ve come from the dark side!