Personal Injury Archives - 1 Chancery Lane

Category: Personal Injury

May

Rehabilitation Damages, Fraud, Dishonesty and Wasted Costs

Those who defend personal injury claims are increasingly used to seeing rehabilitation based special damages claims. Insurers and policymakers should be aware of dishonest layering of rehabilitation ...

Apr

Wormald v Ahmed – Part 36 Offers and the Death of a Protected Party

The sudden death of the claimant in a personal injury claim where there are substantial claims for future losses may cause the value of the claim to reduce radically overnight, leaving parties ...

Apr

The Obviousness of Risk

“To be alive at all involves some risk” – Harold MacMillan 1. On 5th July 2015, at approximately 2am, Christopher James returned to his bedroom at the White Lion ...

Apr

Webinar Recording: Managing Occupational Stress Claims

In Friday's webinar, Laura Johnson and Richard Collier provided an introduction to managing occupational stress claims. The session covered the fundamental legal principles and provided some ...

Apr

Qualified one-way cost shifting – recent case law and practice

PI & Clinical Negligence analysis: David Thomson, ...

Apr

Duty of care challenged in after school club injury case

It is important to remember that reasonable supervision by teachers does not require them to see every action of every pupil, no matter what the circumstances might be. Indeed, over-supervision, ...

Mar

Fundamental dishonesty — recent case law and practice

PI & Clinical Negligence analysis: David Thomson, barrister at 1 Chancery Lane, examines how fundamental dishonesty operates in practice by considering recent case law and developments. Any ...

Feb

Fundamental Dishonesty & Trials in Lockdown

Roger André joined 1 Chancery Lane in December 2020. He has a longstanding Civil Fraud Practice and his move to 1 Chancery Lane, whilst still residing in the North of England, enables him to offer ...

Feb

‘Failure to Remove’ Claims – the Decision in HXA v Surrey County Council, and an Update

It is over nineteen months since the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in N v Poole BC [2019] UKSC 25, [2020] AC 780 considering whether social services authorities and their ...

Feb

The Lion and the Local Safety Standards Defence

Last week, the UK press reported the settlement of liability issues in a claim which had been listed to commence for trial (over 4 days) on Monday 25th January 2021: Fourgeaud v Africa ...

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