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4 New Square Chambers shortlisted for 2 awards at The Lawyer Awards 2024


We are delighted to have been shortlisted in two categories at The…

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Skat Wars Episode I: The rule against enforcing foreign public laws


Pupil barrister Teen Jui Chow has published an article in the Cambridge…

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4 New Square listed in four of The Lawyers’ Top 20 Cases of 2018

Justin Fenwick QC, Patrick Lawrence QC, Jonathan Hough QC, Graham Chapman QC,  Helen Evans, George Spalton, George McDonald and Can Yeginsu have all been named in The Lawyers’ Top…

Daniel Saoul successful in landmark anti-doping case

On 3 January 2018 the National Anti-Doping Panel published its decision finding professional rugby league player Ryan Bailey to be without fault or negligence when refusing…

4 New Square launch Insurance Blog – Insurance Law London

We are delighted to announce the launch of our new Insurance Blog (Insurance Law London) giving our experts’ views on the latest developments and decisions in…

Kazakhstan Kagazy Plc v Arip & Others – Commercial Court gives Judgment in massive cross-border fraud claim

Following a 13 week trial from April to July 2017, on 22 December 2017 Mr Justice Picken of the Commercial Court handed down Judgment in this…

Important judgment on legal professional privilege and the “iniquity exception” to privilege

Judgment was delivered in the Commercial Court on 11 January in the case of Accident Exchange Ltd v McLean and others [2018] EWHC 23 (Comm).  The…

Brownlie v Four Seasons in the Supreme Court: Consequential loss and the ‘tort gateway’

  Facts In Brownlie v Four Seasons [2017] UKSC 80, the Claimant and her family went on holiday to Cairo. Before they left England, the Claimant…

2017 – A Year in Costs

  January – Stephen Innes, Thakkar v Patel [2017] EWCA Civ 117 The trial judge’s costs order (that the Defendant pay 75% of the Claimant’s costs) reflected his finding…

Dangerous Company: what to consider and what to avoid when suing or defending company directors

A salutary reminder of the dangers of not getting your claim straight when suing directors has come in the form of Global Corporate v Hale [2017] EWHC 2277…

Congratulations to Alison Padfield, Nicole Sandells and Robert Marven on their Queen’s Counsel Appointment

4 New Square is delighted to announce Alison Padfield, Nicole Sandells and Robert Marven will be appointed Queen’s Counsel in February, 2018.

Court of Appeal upholds assignments of pre-LASPO CFAs

Today the Court of Appeal gave it’s eagerly awaited judgment in Budana v The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust [2017] EWCA Civ 1980.  Overturning the decision…

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Four Fundamentals of Limitation Periods in Contract and Tort Claims


By Carl Troman, Barrister and Mediator at 4 New Square Four key points…

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Stay of proceedings before serving a claim form


What should claimants do when limitation is about to expire? Noting…

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Why are there so many cases against lawyers for contempt of court?


There has been a spate of cases in the past couple of…

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