Personal Injury Archives - Page 16 of 19

Category: Personal Injury

Oct

“Physically prevented” from accessing the court office: a cautionary tale to claimants intending to issue on the day of expiry.

The case of Kaur v S Russell & Sons Ltd [1973] Q.B. 36 enshrined the principle that if the time limit for making a claim expires on a non-working day, a claimant can nevertheless bring a ...

Mar

Crystal ball gazing: how does a judge assess loss of chance?

Feb

A predictable revolution: Knauer v Ministry of Defence in the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has today handed down its judgment [2016] UKSC 9 in the 'leapfrog' appeal to it from the decision of Bean J in Knauer v Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 2553 (QB). Bean ...

Dec

T’is the season to be techie ….!

This is the time of year for families …. and for gadgets. Lots of them! In particular, smartphones. An average 65% of children in the UK aged between 8 and 11 now have their own smartphone. This ...

Nov

Stroke Caused By Beauty Facial Case Settles

Claims against negligent beauticians and the like are not altogether uncommon. The injuries tend to be ...

Oct

Loss of future earnings and disability

A claimant is “disabled” for the purposes of Tables A – D of the Ogden ...

Sep

Health and safety and self-employment – where do the boundaries lie?

Regular readers of the piblawg will no doubt recall previous posts discussing the various ...

Jun

Car vs Cyclist: Apportionment of liabilty

Fenella Sinclair (A protected person by her litigation friend & daughter) v Rachel Joyner [2015] EWHC 1800 (QB). The ...

Apr

Negligence, false imprisonment and a surprising decision on contributory negligence: Liability of a taxi driver to a passenger detained in his vehicle injured jumping out

The case of Hicks v Young [2015] EWHC 1144 (QB) is extremely sad based, as the judge found, on a tragic ...

Apr

Employer not liable for employee killed in air disaster

Yesterday, Mr Justice Coulson delivered an extensive ...

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