Category: Highways & Rights of Way

Triple success for St John’s Personal Injury team in the Court of Appeal

18th January 2022

Three members of our Personal Injury team were all successful in the Court of Appeal in a judgment handed down on 17th January 2022 in the case of Brown v South West Lakes Trust and others [2022] EWCA Civ 18, arising from a fatal car accident in 2017. This case raised issues concerning the extent…

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Annual UWE Mooting Competition

27th November 2019

St John’s Chambers sponsored the University of West of England (UWE) 2019 Mooting Competition, and on Thursday, 21st November was the final of the three stage mooting competition at UWE, with the results being announced. The winner was Monica Young and the runner up, Ella White who have both received a mini pupillage experience at…

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Barlow v Wigan Council:- If a highway authority built a highway, it is highway maintainable at public expense

26th June 2019

In Barlow v Wigan Council [2019] EWHC 1546 (QB) the High Court found that a Highway was maintainable at public expense despite no evidence of intention for it to be a highway when it was constructed. Matthew White of our Personal Injury team represented the successful claimant/ appellant in this case, and provides a full…

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