Personal Injury Archives - Page 5 of 14

Category: Personal Injury

Sep

Judgment – Penelope Smith v The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

HHJ Berkley gave judgment for the Defendant this week in Winchester County Court in the claim of Penelope Smith v The Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Sep

Avoiding being negligent – How to understand and litigate pension loss claims

Paul Stagg, author of the Pension Loss chapter in Kemp & Kemp, will be speaking today at the PIBA Seminar on Avoiding ...

Jul

Costs set off in QOCS cases

Consider the following, not unusual, scenario. In a case subject to QOCS, a defendant makes an early offer to settle. The claimant does not accept the offer and runs the case to trial. The claim ...

Jun

Personal Injury Briefing – June 2019

Recent years have seen the Courts being better equipped to deal with the question of how to deal with claimants who falsify or exaggerate claims. As a body of case law begins to develop, this issue of ...

Jun

CN v Poole Borough Council

Executive Summary of the Decision of the Supreme Court Handed Down on June 6th 2019 The Supreme Court dismissed the claimants’ appeal on a unanimous basis, upholding the striking out of their ...

May

Sabotaging your own claim: how Facebook can lead to committal proceedings

It is commonplace for social media posts to form part of personal injury litigation. They can be provided by parties in the course of disclosure or uncovered throughout the life of proceedings, often ...

May

High Court dismisses a fundamentally dishonest PI claim: a review of Patel v Aviva & Zurich

There have been several interesting judgments concerning fundamental dishonesty that have been handed down over the last year. The recent judgment of Her Honour Judge Melissa Clarke, sitting as a High ...

Apr

Hot drinks and burns: what are a vendor’s duties when serving hot drinks to customers?

Customers can sometimes sustain injuries when purchasing hot drinks from vendors, particularly if the contents of their drink escapes from the mouth of the lid, if the lid is not secured properly, or, ...

Apr

1 Chancery Lane shortlisted for British Claims Awards 2019

Chambers is delighted to announce that 1 Chancery Lane has been shortlisted for Barristers' Chambers of the Year, at The British Claims Awards 2019.

Apr

The Death of Travel Personal Injury Law? Some thoughts on X v Kuoni Travel Limited [2018] EWCA Civ 938; [2018] 1 WLR 3777 (May 2019)

Presented at the PEOPIL Conference, May 2019. Introduction Mrs X and her husband booked a 14 night all-inclusive package holiday to Sri ...

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