Multiple Defendants: Who to sue?

Cloisters (Chambers of Robin Allen QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | February 2015 #132
In the second of two articles Linda Jacobs looks at legal liability in multiple defendant claims ‘Where two or more tortfeasors cause different damage to the claimant, the causes of action are distinct from one another. The claimant can sue each defendant, but can only recover the extent of the damage for which each tortfeasor …

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Workplace Claims: Testing the boundaries

9 Gough Square (Chambers of Andrew Ritchie QC) | Personal Injury Law Journal | October 2014 #129
Gurion Taussig reviews recent significant employer’s liability cases ‘The duty upon the employer can not be easily displaced and even hazards with a low risk of eventuating will engage the PPE Regulations.’ This employer’s liability article focuses on some of the more significant decisions of the Court of Appeal in the last 18 months. During …

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Health And Safety: Cape of good hope

4 King’s Bench Walk (Chambers of Timothy Raggatt QC) | Procurement & Outsourcing Journal | September/October 2014 #20
David Sawtell examines when a parent company may be liable in tort for the health and safety of the employees of its subsidiaries ‘The Court of Appeal made it very clear that merely because a parent company had appointed an individual as director of its subsidiary company with responsibility for health and safety matters did …

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