In this article, Andrew Bowen QC looks at disclaimers of responsibility and auditors’ liability through the first‐instance decision of Cooke J in Barclays Bank v Grant Thornton UK LLP [2015] 2 B.C.L.C. 537.

This article was first published in Greens Business Law Bulletin, Issue 143 (published August 2016) and is reproduced here with the kind permission of W. Green, the Law Publishers.

The sixth part of this blog series on practical judicial review examines those situations where there was a statutory right of appeal from an initial decision maker to a specialist appeal tribunal (the First-tier Tribunal) which has not been successful, and permission to appeal further to the Upper Tribunal has been refused by the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal. In these circumstances the only potential remedy is by way of judicial review of the refusal of leave to appeal by the Upper Tribunal. more...

This is the fifth of a series of blogs looking at practical aspects of judicial review practice and procedure. This blog is about circumstances in which judicial review may be the only remedy available, but also the many situations where there can be a right of review or appeal which has to be used before judicial review can be brought, or instead of judicial review. more...