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.
PI & Clinical Negligence analysis: Senior Costs Judge Rowley disallowed the defendant solicitor’s success fee when the evidence showed that...
The Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales has published a report examining the experiences of injured victims and bereaved families following...
Information Law analysis: The High Court dismissed six claims arising from alleged historic unlawful information gathering by Associated Newspapers,...
This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights covers two notable costs decisions, including the striking out of costs claims...
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...
Glossary—Latin legal termsDespite attempts in recent years to simplify the language used in legal cases, there are still a number of Latin phrases commonly used in personal injury claims. The following Latin phrases are listed in alphabetical order:Latin termDefinitionMeaningActa iure imperiiLegal
Where a claimant has obtained default judgment pursuant to CPR 12.4(1) will the court order a disposal hearing or allocate the case to a track and give standard fast track directions?Setting aside default judgmentWhere a claimant has obtained default judgment, a defendant may still wish to defend
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
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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