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Personal Injury weekly highlights—28 November 2019

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Published on: 28 November 2019

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This week’s edition of Personal Injury weekly highlights includes the latest edition of the Judicial College Guidelines which was published on 26 November 2019. We also have analysis of the Court of Appeal judgment of Lai Ho v Adelekun which considers the interplay of Part 36 and what costs may be recovered with reference to CPR 45 fixed costs. We also consider a report on fixed recoverable costs in lower value clinical negligence claims published by the Civil Justice Council working group. We have our usual round-up of other key cases and news as well as webinar dates for your diaries, new Q&As and New Law Journal articles of interest.

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