The government has announced this week that it will be rolling out the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to all 16 and 17 year olds.

There is no recognised standard definition of defects. However, a definition that is easy to follow is given in the leading textbook Hudson’s Building and Engineering Contracts.

Selling your home presents a unique combination of demands, from understanding the legal and administrative hurdles which have to be cleared to knowing how to make your front door more appealing.

2019 has seen an exciting year in contentious probate and we have seen some rare cases on unusual areas of law.

Clients in the AME Sector will regularly be involved in the supply, or purchase of, components and will usually want their own terms and conditions to apply to that transaction. The recent case of Transformers & Rectifiers v Needs underlines that if you wish to rely on your standard terms and conditions, you must take sufficient steps to make sure that the other party is given reasonable notice of both your terms and conditions and your intention to rely on them.

Suppliers and customers would ideally prefer to rely on their own respective standard conditions. But in order to be of any use at all, these have to be incorporated into the contract between seller and buyer.

To make a professional negligence claim you need to show that a professional’s work fell below the normal standard. But that is not all: a key component of any professional negligence claim is to show loss. Often we are asked whether claims are viable and sometimes they are not because, even if the solicitor, accountant, financial adviser or surveyor did a dreadful job, causing considerable distress or inconvenience, unless that poor work actually caused a loss, there is no claim.

In Hughmans Solicitors v Central Stream Services Ltd, the parties both argued they were entitled to property sale proceeds, but who took priority? Hughmans acted for a Mr Davidson in a claim brought against him by Central Stream Services Ltd.

Following the Judgment of Ilott v Mitson & Others handed down on 15 March 2017, this has given rise to a number of legal questions for the profession and has caused those who may have a claim pursuant to the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975, to ask “what does this mean for me?”

This year has seen a rarely reported case of fraudulent calumny (or, "the making of false and defamatory statements about someone to damage their reputation; slander" to you and me!).