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Worried about litigation? It's time to fight the fear – Dentistry – Dentistry.co.uk
Mahmood Mawjee talks about the stress of litigation in dentistry and how dentists can mitigate the fear and the associated stress. For the past few years, litigation has been rising in UK dentistry. It has become an immense source of stress for many dental professionals, who – despite always acting in their patients’ best interests – worry about getting complaints. The reality is that current regulations protect the public far more than the profession. This can leave clinicians feeling vulnerable. Remove pressures Dr Mahmood Mawjee believes these concerns about litigation start very early on in a dentist’s career: ‘As soon […]
Russian billionaire settles with ex-wife five years after £450m payout ruling
After almost five years of fighting a high court ruling that awarded the UK’s largest ever divorce payout, a Russian billionaire has reached a settlement with his ex-wife. Farkhad Akhmedov and Tatiana Akhmedova have been embroiled in the most expensive family feud in history since a London high court judge awarded Akhmedova a £450m divorce payout in 2017. Akhmedov, who’s name appeared on the US’s “Putin list” in 2018 of officials and oligarchs close to the Kremlin, did not pay the 41.5% share of the couple’s £1bn-plus marital assets, calling the ruling “wrong and misguided”. Akhmedova took legal action in […]
Litigation Minute: What to Do When Your Company Is Threatened with a Consumer Class Action
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW IN A MINUTE OR LESS You are in-house counsel for a consumer-facing company, and you have just been handed a letter from a plaintiff’s firm you’ve never heard of, threatening to file a class action over labeling, advertising, a company policy, or an alleged defect in your consumer product. What do you do? Know you are potentially at risk Any consumer-facing company is a potential target for a consumer class action, this includes manufacturers, suppliers, and potentially others within the chain of distribution. In recent years, consumer class actions have run the gamut from claims […]
English court finds litigation privilege in documents obtained by deception – Lexology
The ruling clarifies that a litigant can withhold disclosure of communications even if the other person was unaware that the communication was for a privileged purpose. In recent years, the English court has examined litigation privilege carefully. However, no aspect has been the subject of more scrutiny than the requirement that documents that a litigant seeks to withhold must have been prepared for the “dominant purpose” of preparing for litigation. In Ahuja Investments Limited v. Victorygame Limited and Surjit Singh Pandher, the court considered a situation in which one party to an exchange of correspondence withheld from the other their underlying […]