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A Review of the Law relating to Child Abuse compensation claims – a Retreat from Z v UK?
The question of whether a public authority, typically a County or City Council, is liable for the faults of its employees in the exercise and discharge of functions imposed upon that body by a statutory regime is both a changing area of law and a complex one. For many years, culminating with the renowned case […]
Tripping Claims Again!
In order to succeed with a claim for injuries arising from tripping over a pothole in a badly maintained highway a claimant has to prove that the defect was dangerous, foreseeably so, and that there has been a failure by the relevant highway authority to maintain the surface of the highway because highway authorities have […]
Heather Illot v The Blue Cross – March 2017
The case of Illot v The Blue Cross has been keenly watched by legal practitioners advising on the entitlement of family members cut from a will. Hitherto, it was thought that an adult beneficiary of his or her own means could not successfully invoke the Inheritance Act 1975 in order to ask the court to […]
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers Reports on Latest Government Folly
The Government is still deluding itself in thinking that denial of access to justice will cause insurance premiums to fall. Read the full report here – Detail of what is planned for small claims reform has been published today in the Prisons and Courts Bill and in the Government’s response to its consultation on reforming […]
Law Society Responds to Government Consultation
We report today that The Law Society has responded to the Government’s consultation on banning compensation claims for whiplash injuries and requiring all personal injury claims worth less than £5000 to be dealt with in the small claims track where there is no real possibility of obtaining the payment of realistic costs from the losing […]
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers Calls for a Complete Ban on Nuisance Calls about Accident Claims
APIL’s Press Release describes how 95 per cent of respondents to a public poll would support a ban on cold calls and texts about personal injury claims. A ban is being championed by personal injury lawyers, who have branded calls and texts from claims management companies as “tasteless and intrusive”. “It’s hard to find anyone […]
Law Society Slams Government Plans to Deny Access to Justice for Injury Victims
Speaking at the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers’ annual conference, Law Society chief executive Catherine Dixon told delegates: ‘The current environment for making personal injury claims is becoming more hostile. The pace of change in the personal injury litigation landscape is fast and unrelenting and changes seem to lack substantial evidence in support.’ She said: […]
Cycling Injury Claims Review 2016
A keen cyclist was out for an afternoon’s cycle ride on the 3rd July 2011. She was riding on a climbing road through a forest and was involved in an accident with a 4×4 travelling in the opposite direction. She sustained brain injuries and could not give any details about the accident circumstances. The car […]
Can the Duty of Care of a Local Authority be Delegated?
Imagine two scenarios; in the first, a 10-year-old school child was attending swimming lessons as part of a school class but the lessons were provided by a third party known as Direct Swimming Services. The child was not properly supervised and got into difficulties in the water and suffered a severe brain injury. In the […]