Personal Injury Archives - Page 10 of 17

Category: Personal Injury

Mar

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 ...

Mar

Discount Rate Klaxon – Review due in August 2019

The Lord Chancellor will announce later today that the first review of the personal injury discount rate under the Damages Act 1996 as amended by the Civil Liability Act 2018 will start on 19 March ...

Mar

Experts in contempt – amend reports at your peril…

Mar

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 ...

Mar

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 ...

Feb

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, ...

Feb

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

Feb

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 ...

Feb

The Government Actuary’s Department: moving towards the review of the discount rate

“After the Civil Liability Bill received Royal Assent on 20 December 2018 the Lord Chancellor has 90 days to start a review of the rate and then must determine the rate within 140 days of the review ...

Feb

Post-implementation review of Jackson Reforms

The Government has published its (long overdue) review of LASPO Part 2. It's worth a read in full, though probably the most important points to take from it are: 1) the Government is largely satisfied ...

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