Liability: A catalogue of errors

Devereux Chambers | Personal Injury Law Journal | September 2016 #148
In part two of his article, Robert Weir QC continues his compilation of the most significant cases involving liability decisions from the last year ‘The judge properly recognised that the burden of proof lay with the claimant and did not draw inference of negligence from the fact that the extrusion had been retained.’   Part …

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Case Report: Dunnage v (1) Randall (2) UK Insurance Limited [2015] EWCA Civ 673

12 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Paul Russell QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | September 2015 #138
Liability in negligence for the mentally ill; the duty and standard of care applicable ‘The criminal justice system as a whole is far more sensitive to mental illness. However, civil liability has different considerations at stake.’The claimant (C) was a young man who sustained extreme burns as a result of the actions of his uncle …

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