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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 17d
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MAZUR: HAS IT BEEN WRONGLY DECIDED?  CAN WE ALL GO BACK TO SLEEP?
My second Zoominar : 4.00pm Thursday, 16 October 2025 lasting 1.5 hours; a recording and notes will be sent whether or not you attend live and as many of your colleagues as you want can attend the …
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 17d
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RIGHTS OF AUDIENCE AND MAZUR
This subject will be discussed in my 1.5 hour Zoominar on Thursday, 16 October 2025 at 4pm and you and your colleagues will receive a recording and notes, whether or not you can attend and it can b…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 17d
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE – AN INTERVIEW WITH KERRY – NOT JUST ABOUT THE LAW
Here is a podcast of a 28 minute interview of me by Dr Siamak Goudarzi of Nexter Law
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 23d
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REGULATORS SEEKING TO CRUSH LAWYERS: A DANGEROUS STATE OF AFFAIRS
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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AI: ARTIFICIAL IDIOCY. WHERE WILL IT END FOR LAWYERS? PRISON
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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REVIEW SOLICITORS: BEWARE
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: WAS THE INTERFERENCE WITH RIGHTS PROPORTIONATE? (6)
321.         First, a theme of the reasons advanced for freezing Mr Shvidler’s assets is that he should be sanctioned, not for anything that he was doing or threatening to do at the time of his des…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: IMPACT ON THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL (5)
292.         Unlike such freezing orders, an asset-freeze imposed under the Regulations is not justified by any claim to recover funds held by the individual whose assets are frozen; nor is it subj…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS:  PROPORTIONATE RESPONSE – BALANCE BETWEEN STATE AND INDIVIDUAL (4)
Key quote The function of rights is to set limits to the circumstances in which the interests of individuals may be overridden by the interests of the community at large. Depriving a person of thei…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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SUPREME COURT: THE BASIS OF THE DESIGNATION OF MR SHVIDLER (3)
259.      Mr Shvidler has been designated by name under regulation 5(1)(a) for the purposes of regulations 11 to 15. Regulation 11(1) prohibits him or anyone else from “dealing …
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: THE SEPARATION OF POWERS (2)
Lord Leggatt deals with the separation of powers at Paragraph 255 and 256 set out below. The key point is that in disagreement with the majority of the Supreme Court, he says: “But what I believe t…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: LORD LEGGATT’S DISSENTING JUDGMENT IN SUPREME COURT (1)
In my blog piece – BRITISH CITIZENS AND RUSSIA: TWO CHILLING AUTHORITARIAN SUPREME COURT DECISIONS I set out the whole of Lord Leggatt’s dissenting Judgment. In a series of blogs, I am now goi…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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SOME PREDICTIONS
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE!
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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ONLY SOLICITORS OR EXEMPT PEOPLE CAN CONDUCT LITIGATION – NOT PARALEGALS – MAJOR HIGH COURT DECISION: YOU MAY NEED TO RE-ORGANIZE TOTALLY YOUR FIRM
I am conducting a one-hour Zoominar on this subject at 4pm this afternoon, Thursday, 18 September 2025. Whether or not you can attend, you will be sent a recording and notes. The cost is £100 plus …
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · 26d
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SOLICITORS’ FIRMS CLOSING AT 3.6 TIMES THE RATE OF PUBS
The latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority show that solicitors’ firms are closing at 3.6 times the rate at which Public Houses are closing, with both sets of figures being for Eng…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 18
ONLY SOLICITORS OR EXEMPT PEOPLE CAN CONDUCT LITIGATION - NOT PARALEGALS - MAJOR HIGH COURT DECISION: YOU MAY NEED TO RE-ORGANIZE TOTALLY YOUR FIRM kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/o...
ONLY SOLICITORS OR EXEMPT PEOPLE CAN CONDUCT LITIGATION – NOT PARALEGALS – MAJOR HIGH COURT DECISION: YOU MAY NEED TO RE-ORGANIZE TOTALLY YOUR FIRM
I am conducting a one-hour Zoominar on this subject at 4pm this afternoon, Thursday, 18 September 2025. Whether or not you can attend, you will be sent a recording and notes. The cost is £100 plus …
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 18
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SOLICITORS’ FIRMS CLOSING AT 3.6 TIMES THE RATE OF PUBS
The latest figures from the Solicitors Regulation Authority show that solicitors’ firms are closing at 3.6 times the rate at which Public Houses are closing, with both sets of figures being for Eng…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 16
DIESELGATE COSTS SLASHED AGAIN – TIME TO SCRAP GROUP ACTIONS kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/d...
DIESELGATE COSTS SLASHED AGAIN – TIME TO SCRAP GROUP ACTIONS
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 16
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ZOOMINARS: AUTUMN 2025
Below are details of a series of seven forthcoming Zoominars, all at 4.00pm and all lasting one hour. For more information and to book please click here. Recordings will be sent to all delegates, w…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 15
A CONSERVATIVE LORD CHANCELLORS SPEECH FROM 10 YEARS AGO -HOW FAR TO THE RIGHT WE HAVE MOVED SINCE kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/a...
A CONSERVATIVE LORD CHANCELLORS SPEECH FROM 10 YEARS AGO -HOW FAR TO THE RIGHT WE HAVE MOVED SINCE
Here, I provide a link to a speech made by the Right Honourable Michael Gove MP on 23 June 2015, when he was the Conservative Lord Chancellor. It is reasonable and moderate, even if much of it was …
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 12
MOTOR FINANCE MISSELLING CLAIMS: MORE DEVELOPMENTS kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/m...
MOTOR FINANCE MISSELLING CLAIMS: MORE DEVELOPMENTS
This first appeared in my Newsletter Kerry on Costs, Regulation, Legal Systems and so much more. Subscriptions are £250 + VAT for 2026, which is over 100 issues. If you want the subscription to sta…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 11
RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: COURT OF APPEAL: CRIME IF YOU FEED YOUR FAMILY BUT THAT IS HUMAN RIGHTS ACT COMPLIANT kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/11/r...
RUSSIAN SANCTIONS: COURT OF APPEAL: CRIME IF YOU FEED YOUR FAMILY BUT THAT IS HUMAN RIGHTS ACT COMPLIANT
In my piece BRITISH CITIZENS AND RUSSIA: TWO CHILLING AUTHORITARIAN SUPREME COURT DECISIONS I discussed at the end the case of Khan v Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Af…
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 10
SOLICITORS ACT DOES NOT AFFECT CLIENTS’ COMMON LAW RIGHTS TO CHALLENGE BILLS kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/s...
SOLICITORS ACT DOES NOT AFFECT CLIENTS’ COMMON LAW RIGHTS TO CHALLENGE BILLS
In Baker Botts (UK) LLP v Carbon Holdings Ltd & Anor [2025] EWHC 2225 (Comm) the Business and Property Courts of England and Wales London Circuit Commercial Court, part of the High Court, …
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Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social · Sep 10
COURT SCREWS UP BIG TIME – BUT APPARENTLY ALL CLAIMANT’S FAULT: A SHAMEFUL DECISION kerryunderwood.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/c...
COURT SCREWS UP BIG TIME – BUT APPARENTLY ALL CLAIMANT’S FAULT: A SHAMEFUL DECISION
Pay a £10,000 issue: do you really expect the court to do anything at all? In Arnold Holdings Ltd v Keelys LLP [2025] EWCC 44 (29 July 2025) (HHJ Saira Singh) the County Court dismissed an appeal a…
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