22/11/20. Very often in sports there are incidents which lawyers must wonder about in a way that others may not. When Luis Suarez bit off more than he could chew in Liverpool’s Premier League encounter with Chelsea in April 2013 there was a storm of controversy. If the same incident had occurred on the street rather than on the pitch nobody would have been surprised if civil or even criminal action was initiated.The 10 match ban and a fine seemed a small price to pay for perpetrating an assault on somebody, especially given that Suarez seemed to make something of a habit of this. Do incidents like this give the misleading impression that any incident which occurs on the pitch won’t attract civil or criminal liability...
20/10/20. The case of Swift v Carpenter was heard by the Court of Appeal on 23 -25 June 2020 and judgment is eagerly awaited ...
24/09/20. In a judgment which will have wide-ranging implications across lower value personal injury claims, Martin Spencer J...
31/08/20. There are a variety of ways that an employer can find themselves compensating an employee for an injury sustained a...
15/01/2021 UPDATE:
Happy New Year, 2021. I hope you and yours are safe and well. Has the virus gone yet? – No. Have you had y...
22/12/20. Case Name: M v L
Court Name: SHEFFIELD
Accident Date: 21/11/2016
Settlement Date: 12/11/2019
TOTAL GROSS SETTLEMENT: £35,000.00
Background
Th...
Claims arising out of a Fatal Accident can be complex, high value and fraught with emotion. This book offers the practitioner a clear and comprehensive guide to all of the issue...
15/12/20. Here is a summary of the recent notable court cases over the past month. You can also receive these for free by registering for our PI Brief Update newsletter. Just sel...
04/12/20. This year more than any in recent memory has highlighted how much businesses need to be aware of their costs and budgets. Businesses can be forgiven for not having pred...
15/11/20. Here is a summary of the recent notable court cases over the past month. You can also receive these for free by registering for our PI Brief Update newsletter. Just sel...
11/10/20. The Compensation Recovery Unit provides a system whereby the Department for Work and Pensions may clawback a proportion of some of the damages awarded or agreed to be p...
15/10/20. Here is a summary of the recent notable court cases over the past month. You can also receive these for free by registering for our PI Brief Update newsletter. Just sel...
09/10/20. Modern clinical negligence litigation remains complex. It requires the detailed and accurate assessment of the case; an understanding of many different areas of medicin...
1. 30/09/20. Clinical negligence litigation continues apace; the doctor-patient relationship ever-evolving, medical professional guidance adapting and incremental changes to the c...
23/09/20. Nearly 600,000 personal injury cases valued at less than £25,000 are commenced in the Pre-Action Protocol for Low Value Personal Injury Claims in Road Traffic Accidents (...
21/09/20. Here is a summary of the recent notable court cases over the past month. You can also receive these for free by registering for our PI Brief Update newsletter. Just sel...
26/08/20. Under s.33 Limitation Act 1980, the court may disapply the limitation period in a personal injury claim if it is equitable to do so having regard to the prejudice to th...
15/08/20. Here is a summary of the recent notable court cases over the past month. You can also receive these for free by registering for our PI Brief Update newsletter. Just sel...
20/07/20. A return to principle over policy in WM Morrisons Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12 and Barclays Bank plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13
Introduction
In...
15/07/20. Here is a summary of the recent notable court cases over the past month. You can also receive these for free by registering for our PI Brief Update newsletter. Just sel...
12/07/20. In Ho v Adelekun (No. 2) 2020] EWCA Civ 517 the Court of Appeal confirmed that the QOCS regime did not preclude a defendant from setting off his or her costs against a cl...
20/06/20. In the recent case of Magee v Willmott the Defendant successfully appealed a lower court decision to allow the Claimant relief from sanctions to rely upon expert ev...
15/06/20. Here is a summary of the recent notable court cases over the past month. You can also receive these for free by registering for our PI Brief Update newsletter. Just sel...
11/06/20. Brain injury rehabilitation has been driven to crisis point by a perfect Covid-19 storm - destroying NHS capacity and devastating third sector funding, according to a ne...
17/05/20. On 3rd March 2020, Robert Buckland, the incumbent Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, confirmed that electronic signatures are permissible and legally v...
This book is for the busy and new practitioner who is building their experience and expertise in asbestos claims. It is not written from the perspective of one side or the other...
16/12/20. Each issue a particular topic is highlighted, citing some of the useful cases and other materials in that area. You can also receive these for free by registering...
05/12/20. On Friday 16th October 2020, the Court handed down an eagerly-awaited judgement for personal injury lawyers. It was hoped that the appeal in Belsner v CAM Legal Services...
16/11/20. Each issue a particular topic is highlighted, citing some of the useful cases and other materials in that area. You can also receive these for free by registering for o...
10/11/20. It’s two decades since the CPR came in. Costs are now fixed; many of the problems with costs are fixed; but costs law is anything but simple. There is so much you need ...
21/10/20. Do claims for damages risk encouraging defensive medicine? Lord Justice Irwin thought so and described it as 'self-evident' in a 2017 Court of Appeal judgment [1] . In fa...
16/10/20. Each issue a particular topic is highlighted, citing some of the useful cases and other materials in that area. You can also receive these for free by registering for o...
12/10/20. In the motor insurance space the headline news is that there has been a downward trend in terms of claims volumes.
Personal Injury
A downward trend is expected with milli...
Decisions about medical treatment can be about life and death, such as withdrawal of treatment or (not) providing CPR. Or about quality of life, liberty and independence, ...
28/09/20. When it comes to treatment, the test of breach of duty is the Bolam test. A different test applies to providing information to patients since Montgomery v Lanarkshire H...
25/09/20. In Simpson v Payne , the Defendant Applicant (Defendant) was successful before His Honour Judge Murdoch in their application for a finding of fundamental dishonesty again...
22/09/20. Each issue a particular topic is highlighted, citing some of the useful cases and other materials in that area. You can also receive these for free by registering for o...
28/08/20. The Court of Appeal has clarified the tests for identifying a highway maintainable at the public expense under the Highways Act 1980. In doing so, they unpack the requi...
27/08/20. In Wickes Building Supplies Limited v William Gerarde Blair (No. 2) (Costs) [2020] EWCA Civ 17 (" Blair ") it was agreed between the parties that the claimant to the substa...
25/08/20. Covid-19 and the subsequent lockdown has affected our personal lives in many ways. Professionally, it has also forced many PI law firms into hardship.
When the lockdown ...
16/08/20. Each issue a particular topic is highlighted, citing some of the useful cases and other materials in that area. You can also receive these for free by registering for o...
03/08/20. The Supreme Court has reversed the decision of the Court of Appeal in in Briody v St Helens and Knowsley Areas Health Authority [2002] QB 856, and clarified the basis on ...
10/06/20. Case Name: H v H
Accident Date: 09/11/2015
Settlement Date: 08/10/2019
TOTAL GROSS SETTLEMENT: £100,000.00
Background
The Claimant brought an action against the Defendant fo...
16/07/20. Each issue a particular topic is highlighted, citing some of the useful cases and other materials in that area. You can also receive these for free by registering for o...
03/07/20. Under s.33 Limitation Act 1980, the court may disapply the limitation period in a personal injury claim if it is equitable to do so having regard to the prejudice to th...