Navigate through the complexities of assigning responsibility in personal injury and clinical negligence claims. This topic provides essential insights into determining legal liability, encompassing key principles, case law precedents, and expert strategies. Gain the knowledge needed to accurately identify liable parties and substantiate your client's case with robust evidence and legal acumen.
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False imprisonmentLiabilityFalse imprisonment consists of the complete deprivation of liberty without a lawful basis. Claims will in practice be made...
The employer’s duty of careThis Practice Note considers the scope of an employer’s common law duty to ensure the safety of their employees with...
Duty of care and breach in clinical negligence claimsThe duty of careA medical practitioner owes a duty of care to their patient. This duty is to take...
Pain, suffering and loss of amenityValuing the lossHow should an injury be measured in a sum of money? After all no formula can calculate the value of...
If a claimant has issued proceedings against two defendants and subsequently the first defendant makes a Part 36 offer to settle the matter despite liability being outstanding between the two defendants, can the first defendant then pursue the second defendant for a recovery? Will separate
Personal injury claims involving a bankrupt or insolvent partyThis Practice Note is intended to highlight a range of issues which arise in personal injury claims where either the claimant or defendant becomes insolvent.It is important first to distinguish between two distinct but related concepts.A
Vicarious liability in the course of employment—the close connection testThis Practice Notes considers the circumstances in which the court will hold an employer vicariously liable for a tort which has been committed by an employee. The courts’ approach to the ‘close connection’ test has evolved
Material contribution in personal injury claimsThis Practice Note deals with how the principle of material contribution operates where there are multiple defendants or causes of an injury, the different approach taken by the courts to causation in disease cases and whether the material contribution
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