Alison Berridge, Alexandra Littlewood and Ciar McAndrew, public law barristers at Monckton Chambers, highlight the points of interest from August-September decisions of the First-Tier and Upper Tribunals in the Freedom of Information Journal.
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Steven Gee QC – Journal of Business Law issue 6 – Suing Persons unknown, the EC Motor Insurance Directive and Cameron v Liverpool Victoria
Steven Gee QC comments on Cameron v Liverpool Victoria, the first case to reach the highest court on suing unnamed defendants. The article first appeared in the Journal of Business Law and Thomson Reuters.
Please click here to read full article, which is also available online to subscribers on Westlaw UK.
Steven Gee QC featured in fivehundred magazine by The Legal 500
“Back to the Bar”, after five years away, Steven Gee QC explains why he has returned to the independent Bar and what he learnt from operating in the law firm environment.
Please click here to read the magazine, the article is on pages 94 – 97.
Mark Brealey QC – Competition Litigation: UK Practice and Procedure
The Second edition, edited by Mark Brealey QC and Kyla George can be purchased from Oxford University Press here.
Just published – Data Profiling and Insurance Law by Brendan McGurk
The book looks at how big data and predictive analytics are being used by insurers to profile risk and monitor insured behaviours in real time. Big data is causing fundamental changes in the way insurance is provided and those changes in turn give rise to a range of important legal questions, in the realms of insurance law and beyond. Insurance law – and its reciprocal duty of good faith disclosure – historically arose in response to the information asymmetry between insured and insurers: the Insured ordinarily held most knowledge of the risk to be insured. Big data not only removes that asymmetry but may in fact put insurers in a stronger position given the variety of data sources being parsed by new technology to enable them to build complex profiles of individual insureds. This potentially breathes new life into the insurers’ duty of good faith and does so by examining how other areas of the law – most obviously data law and the GDPR – might inform the evolution of insurers’ common law duty of disclosure. A central theme of the book is access to insurance, insofar as the use of these technologies raises equality and human rights issues (for insureds refused cover) as we all as competition law issues (where new entrants may not be able to access necessary data). The book considers the adequacy of remedies in equality, consumer, financial services, competition and data law and how they might address some of the problems arising out of the use of these technologies. The book is therefore of relevance to practitioners in a variety of areas and is the first of its kind to tackle the legal issues arising from the use of big data in the insurance market.
The book by Brendan McGurk can be purchased from Hart publishing here.
George Peretz QC and Prospect magazine: Extension of Article 50 and the European parliament elections: a guide for the perplexed
Please click here to read the article published by Prospect magazine.
Tarlochan Lall and Tax Adviser Magazine: Where are we now?
Tarlochan Lall looks at the likelihood of a no deal Brexit, and what that means. To read the article, please click here.
Alison Berridge, Alexandra Littlewood and Ciar McAndrew: Freedom of Information Journal Vol. 15 Issue 3 – Recent decisions of the Commissioner and Tribunal
Alison Berridge, Alexandra Littlewood and Ciar McAndrew highlight the points of interest from decisions of the tribunals and Information Commissioner published from November to December 2018.
Please click here to read the article published in the Freedom of Information Journal.
Book launch: Judicial Independence – Memoirs of a European Judge by Carl Baudenbacher
On 5th March the City Law School is hosting the book launch for Professor Baudenbacher’s latest book, entitled Judicial Independence – Memoirs of a European Judge (Springer, 2019). This book is about law, but it is not a law book. It is aimed at all interested contemporaries, lawyers and non-lawyers alike. Richly seasoned with personal memories and anecdotes, it offers unique insights into how European courts actually work.
Chair: Professor Panos Koutrakos (Professor of EU Law and Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law)
Keynote Speaker: Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws
Speakers: Tim Ward QC (Monckton Chambers)
Authors remarks: Carl Baudenbacher (former President of EFTA Court; Monckton Chambers)
About the author: Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Carl Baudenbacher, a Swiss citizen, was the Liechtenstein Judge of the EFTA Court between 1995 – 2018 and its President between 2003 and 2018. He is a renowned expert in the fields of commercial, economic and competition law and is also the Director of the Competence Center for European and International Law at the University of St Gallen HSG. From 1993 to 2004, he was a Permanent Visiting Professor of the University of Texas School of Law.
This event is free to attend. For further information and to book your place please click here.
The book can be purchased here.
George Peretz QC and Tax Journal: State aid and the Belgium excess profits case
Please click here to read the article published in the Tax Journal.