Category: Articles
19
Mar
19
Experts in contempt – amend reports at your peril…
Medical reports are often meticulously scrutinised in personal injury claims. They provide an overview of the claimant's personal account to his or her expert of their symptomatology, past medical ...

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15
Mar
19
Anonymity Orders: Balancing privacy with the principle of open justice
The High Court has recently considered the circumstances in which it is appropriate to grant anonymity orders under CPR 39.2(4) and the stage at which such applications should be made. ...

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06
Mar
19
Proving the size of highway defects – Why measurements of length, width and depth are crucial
It is common in highway trip and slip claims for claimants to provide photographs of the defect they say caused them injury. Those photographs usually show, amongst other things, an attempt to measure ...

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01
Mar
19
An Unexpected Relief
Relief from sanctions applications remain an all too common part of litigation, particularly in the personal injury sphere. In a recent case before DDJ Sadd in Croydon County Court, relief from ...

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22
Feb
19
Claimant in stroke case fails to prove causation on the balance of probabilities.
Sophie Mortimer successfully represented the Defendant in a clinical negligence claim concerning whether a stroke would have been prevented, or its effects ameliorated, with the provision of: ...

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20
Feb
19
Supreme Court judgment in Cameron v Liverpool Victoria Insurance Co Ltd
Today, the Supreme Court handed down their judgment in Cameron v Liverpool Victoria Insurance Co Ltd. The case concerned whether a claimant could amend their claim form (and consequently, ...

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20
Feb
19
Trecarrel House Limited v Rouncefield
This article was first published in Nearly Legal HHJ Carr in a reserved judgment handed down on 13 Feb 2019 allowed the ...

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14
Feb
19
Various Claimants v Barclays Bank
In the case of Various Claimants v Barclays Bank, permission to appeal to the Supreme Court has been granted to Barclays. Barclays is represented by

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14
Feb
19
Miss Shahrab Asim Burney (a minor by her litigation friend Mr M A Y Burney) v Iceland Foods Ltd
Ian Stebbings successfully defends Iceland Foods in a claim by a child that she sustained injury after being struck by an ...

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13
Feb
19
Circuit Judge Level Gas Safety Certificate
Richard Cherry has succeeded in the second Circuit Judge level Gas Safety Certificate Case before HHJ Carr in Truro County ...

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