The latest Hindsight newsletter includes articles on the scale of mortgage fraud in the UK, practical steps to consider in notifying insurance claims and the new Pre-Action Protocol for Engineering and Construction Disputes.

An analysis of Dickins v O2 Plc in which the Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the Judge at first instance to award an employee damages as a result of the employee’s psychiatric illness caused by her employer.

This edition of Case Law Update looks at the recent decision of the Court of Appeal in Yorkshire Bank Finance Limited –v- Aubrey Joseph Mulhall and Angela Gail Mulhall which considered the application of the Limitation Act 1980 to the delayed execution of a Charging Order.

A look at the decision in The Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National PLC and others which established that bank charges are largely not capable of amounting to penalties at common law but can be assessed for fairness under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations.

This Case Law Update examines the case of Andrew Fender v Natwest in which the High Court directed an administrator to recognise a bank as a secured creditor despite their execution of a deed of release.