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Catriona Stirling and William Latimer-Sayer QC look at some of the key areas of the law in relation to quantum of personal injury damages which they consider to be in need of reform ‘If a head of loss is pecuniary in nature, it should be open to all claimants to advance a claim for it, …
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Dr Robert Whittock considers the causation hurdle faced in claiming for travel sickness on package holidays ‘Claimants who consume food or drink outside the package prior to falling ill are likely to find proving causation to be even more difficult.’ Over the last few years travel sickness claims have increased by 500% despite reports of …
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Sam Hayman discusses the implications of the recent case of Yirenkyi and its effect on the costs management regime ‘Matters were not assisted by rounds of first instance conflicting decisions, and while this judgment does not extinguish all issues and ambiguity within the process it gives a robust framework to judges to operate within.’ Sir …
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Liam Ryan examines the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Darnley and its potential wider impact ‘There is a tendency in some courts to elide breach of duty and scope of duty issues with the concept of a duty of care (as had the majority in the Court of Appeal).’ There is an interesting …
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Paul Jones explores whether all the penalties of a beaten Part 36 offer must apply or whether they can be severable ‘The matter arose from a clinical negligence case that had concluded in the claimant’s favour, including an order that the defendant pay the claimant’s costs on the standard basis.’ Once again, Part 36 offers …
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Martin Porter QC considers all the hot issues involving cycling accidents ‘The technology is probably not there yet, but there are grounds for optimism that autonomous vehicles will in time become significantly safer than human-driven motor vehicles.’ On 18 March 2018 Elaine Herzberg was pushing her bicycle across a dual carriageway road in Arizona when …
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James Marwick and Marcus Coates-Walker provide an invaluable summary of the latest decisions in the ever-changing arena of Part 36 offers ‘Hislop, it is submitted, is yet another instance of the court having to construct a Part of the CPR which was simply not drafted with fixed costs in mind and where the poor drafting …
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Is an employer vicariously liable for injuries inflicted during a fight between employees? David Sanderson examines a recent case ‘It is in many ways remarkable that the trial judge should have taken such care to make and record findings of fact that seem so clearly to point towards a finding of vicarious liability, only then …
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Shahram Sharghy reports on a case that concerned whether a duty of care was owed by a non-medically-trained receptionist ‘As soon as the claimant had been “booked in”, he entered into a relationship with the defendant of patient and healthcare provider. The scope of the duty extends to taking reasonable care not to provide misleading …
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Pankaj Madan explores recent research into the effect of the litigation process on chronic pain conditions ‘The most consistent finding of the study was that litigants’ perception of increased pain and minimisation of treatment effect was strongly reinforced by involvement in the compensation system.’ In November’s edition of Personal Injury Law Journal (‘What does it …
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