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Category: Personal Injury

Apr

Success in the Supreme Court for Edward Faulks QC and Katie Ayres

This morning the Supreme Court handed down judgment in Barclays Bank v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13 (‘Barclays’). The judgment was handed down together with the parallel ...

Mar

Coronavirus and Inquests: Guidance from the Chief Coroner

Over the past few weeks, many of us have watched the news and have seen the impact of COVID-19 on our daily lives. Most of us now remain confined to our homes, waiting until it is deemed safe to ...

Mar

Covid-19: The facts

Matthew Ford , Head of Travel at BLM and Sarah Prager, Senior Travel Barrister at 1 Chancery Lane, talk through the latest on Covid-19. What is Covid-19, and how worried should we be about ...

Feb

Discontinue at your peril: obtaining fundamental dishonesty post-discontinuance

It is frequent occurrence in road traffic claims for defendant insurers to raise allegations of fundamental dishonesty during the course of litigation, or, indeed, at trial. This is often in response ...

Feb

Denying the successful Claimant fixed costs: a cautionary tale

Hussain (I) & Begum (II) v Aviva Insurance Limited The rule that costs follow the event is very rarely displaced, except in favour of claimants in fast track claims who are protected ...

Feb

Food Poisoning: the Latest Data from the Food Standards Agency

Figures just released by the Food Standards Agency show that there are estimated to be about 2.4 million cases of food poisoning a year in the UK; more than twice as many as the estimated figure in ...

Feb

Coronavirus: The Facts for the Travel Industry

Matthew Ford, Head of Travel at BLM and Sarah ...

Feb

Defendant’s costs paid by Claimant’s expert

In the clinical negligence case of Thimmaya v Lancashire NHS Foundation Trust v Jamil (Manchester County Court 30 January 2020), HHJ Evans ordered that the Claimant’s expert should pay ...

Jan

The imprecision of evidence 17 years after the events (Sanderson v Guy’s & Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust)

Personal injury analysis: issues relating to memory and witness evidence continue to trouble the courts. The problems are particularly acute when witnesses are giving evidence many years after ...

Jan

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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