Category: Personal Injury
24
Jan
20
Reconstructing the Past – Memory, belief or a bit of both?
In 1973, reflecting on "scattered pictures" and "misty water-coloured memories", Barbra Streisand asked "Can it be that it was all so simple then"? The answer from Mrs.

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21
Jan
20
TATLA Newsletter – January 2020
'Where a cup of hot coffee, which is placed on the tray table of the seat in front of a person in an aircraft in flight, for unknown reasons slides and tips over, causing a passenger to suffer ...

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21
Jan
20
Seeking fundamental dishonesty on appeal: a claimant whose evidence was “perforated with inconsistency” and “exaggerated” should have been found fundamentally dishonest
Following the decisions of Molodi v Cambridge [2018] and Richards & Anor v Morris [2018], it is commonplace for defendants to seek findings of fundamental dishonesty in ...

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17
Dec
19
Public Authority Briefing December 2019
In this end of year article, Andrew Warnock QC asks the question many involved with the public sector have been asking since Poole v GN - when does an Assumption of Responsibility arise? ...

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02
Dec
19
TATLA Newsletter December 2019
We end the year on a jurisdictional theme: a case-note on the Court of Appeal’s decision in the recent Lugano Convention case of JSC Commercial Bank v Kolomoisky & ...

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27
Nov
19
Edward Faulks QC shortlisted in The Legal 500 UK awards 2020 as Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Silk of the Year
We are pleased to announce that after extensive research Edward Faulks QC has been shortlisted for the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Silk of the Year in The Legal 500 UK 2020 awards. ...

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25
Oct
19
QOCS mix-up: “mixed” claims in the Court of Appeal
Introduction Where a claimant brings a “mixed” claim (i.e. they claim damages for personal injury and in the same proceedings also claim non-personal injury damages or other ...

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25
Oct
19
QOCS and mixed claims
If Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 was argued today, would Ms Donoghue have had QOCS protection? Not if she had been claiming for the cost of another bottle of ginger beer, as ...

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27
Sep
19
Costs Budgeting Update: CCMC costs ARE incurred
Although District Judges have been taking the view that the costs of the CCMC at which costs budgeting is taking place are incurred for the purpose of budgeting for future costs, this has now ...

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25
Sep
19
The demise of Thomas Cook: where do travel claims stand?
We all woke up to the news that Thomas Cook had collapsed, entering into compulsory liquidation. Not only was this troubling news for holidaymakers due to go on holiday, and indeed those stranded ...

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