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Personal Injury weekly highlights—31 October 2019

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Published on: 31 October 2019

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Table of contents

Key PI updates
New annual survey for hours and earnings figures released for 2019
Rear-end shunt road traffic collisions and fundamental dishonesty in credit hire claims
No automatic QOCS costs protection for ‘mixed’ personal injury claims
Case management
Applying the ‘Aldi guidelines’ on abuse of process
Court of Appeal clarifies iniquity exception in employment claim and rejects anonymity and fresh evidence applications
Case management and relief from sanctions—dealing with failure to pay trial fee
Disclosure
The scope of the disclosure pilot

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Personal Injury highlights includes details of the new annual survey for hours and earnings (ASHE) figures for 2019. We also include details of a new practice note which tracks the developing doctrine of vicarious liability. In a busy week for new judgements we have our usual round-up of key cases and news as well as webinar dates for your diaries and New Law Journal articles of interest.

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