This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes the minutes of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) annual open meeting of 8 May 2025. We look at the recent Privy Council decision on unlawful detention and vicarious liability, a Court of Appeal finding that a local authority was not liable in negligence or public nuisance for injuries caused by items left by an unidentified third party and a landmark High Court ruling addressing recoverability of deputyship fees under the Fatal Accidents Act. We also bring you two new Practice Notes that provide insights into claims involving occupational stress and a new Checklist covering contributory negligence. We also feature our specialised Quantum Database and case submission Portal. In addition, we have our usual round-up of other news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes an analysis of a Court of Appeal decision on the court’s power to grant anonymity orders. We also consider guidance on minor psychological injuries in whiplash tariff cases and the expansion of mediation in non-personal injury road traffic accident claims. In addition, we have our usual round-up of other news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes confirmation from the Court Funds Office on a further reduction in interest rates for basic and special accounts, and details of the MOJ’s response to a consultation on revisions to the medical reporting process for road traffic accident claims. We consider a decision that found the Court of Protection did have jurisdiction to determine a dispute over the claimant’s deputy’s release from reverse indemnity undertakings and a clinical negligence case where anonymity was refused as materials already in the public domain about the claimant’s health rendered any attempt at anonymisation futile and unjustified. We also bring you our usual roundup of other news, cases and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes a Supreme Court judgment which found that ‘lost years’ damages are recoverable by child claimants whose life expectancy has been reduced as a result of injury (CCC v Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust). We have also included amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill involving proposals to remove the limitation period for child sexual abuse claims. In addition, we have our usual round-up of other news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week’s edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights include the 184th Practice Direction update, clarifying court notification procedures for settlements and discontinuance. We consider a recent ruling on employer’s liability which offers guidance on interpreting ‘equipment’, resulting in claim dismissal. We also bring you some recent road traffic accident claims, including non-party liability in credit hire, and negligence in risk assessments in a catastrophic cycling accident. In addition, we have our usual round-up of other news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes a Senior Courts Costs Office decision which held that Medical Reporting Organisation fees are recoverable as disbursements (not outsourced solicitors' work) but limited reasonable mark-ups on experts’ fees to 25% in the absence of sufficient justification (JXX v Archibald). We also feature a High Court clinical negligence decision on causation in a failure to prescribe antibiotics claim. The PI and clinical negligence team have published a new flowchart outlining the procedural steps required to obtain court approval of a settlement in a child’s claim. In addition, we provide details on submitting cases to the Lexis Quantum Database along with our usual round-up of other news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes a High Court clinical negligence case on breach of duty of care and news of Lord Darzi’s report on the NHS. We also include our usual round up of other key cases and news.

This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes a new series of videos offering concise clinical overviews to help practitioners better understand injuries and illnesses and manage related claims more effectively. We cover the Court of Appeal’s decision overturning the Mazur ruling, NHS Resolution’s report on enhanced maternity safety engagement and a High Court clinical negligence decision on causation in spinal surgery. We also include important developments on the recoverability of expert agency fees, surveillance evidence and a case involving fundamental dishonesty in a non-freezing cold injury claim. In addition, we provide instructions on how to submit cases to the Lexis Quantum Database, along with our usual round-up of other new content, news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week’s edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes important Court of Appeal guidance on vicarious liability and independent contractors and a recent High Court decision where the failure to administer thiamine caused Wernickes Encephalopathy. We also look at emerging developments in the use of artificial intelligence in litigation and an update from the Health and Safety Executive on workplace safety statistics. We also feature our specialised Quantum Database and case submission Portal. In addition, we have our usual round-up of other news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes the minutes from the King’s Bench Division court user meeting, the Ministry of Justice’s updates of court fees for whiplash guidance, news of publication of the latest Judicial College Guidelines and the latest personal injury discount rate meeting minutes. We also include our usual round-up of other cases and news.

This week's edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights includes an analysis of a recent High Court decision that unqualified employees of law firms cannot conduct litigation even under the supervision of a qualified lawyer (Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP (The Solicitors Regulation and The Law Society of England and Wales, intervening)). We also consider a High court decision that looked at the scope of a contractor’s duty of care when managing works affecting the public highway and another High Court decision that considered a school’s duty to inform parents of their child’s drug use. In addition, we have our usual round-up of other news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.

This week’s edition of PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights looks at the Court of Appeal’s approach to breach of duty in claims arising from cycling accidents, a new Victims’ Commissioner report on barriers to justice following serious road traffic collisions, and key costs developments concerning investigations into before-the-event insurance and the requirements for revising approved costs budgets. We also feature our quantum case submission portal, alongside our usual round-up of news, cases, webinars and New Law Journal articles of interest.