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In recent years, the courts have wrestled with the doctrine of material contribution in cases involving medical negligence. On one view, a case fails if the patient fails to show the injury would prob...

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News broke this week that the NHS is in financial crisis. Within the first three months of receiving their new budgets healthcare trusts have seen their deficits grow to equal that of the entire previ...

Insurance companies often make admissions of liability in accident claims. Sometimes that admission is later withdrawn. The High Court was asked to consider the issue recently in the case of Philip Ca...

We have a new pre-action protocol for personal injury claims. Recent changes to the rules for low value personal injury claims saw new protocols in respect of those cases but the existing protocol rem...

Last week, in an unreported case, the High Court rejected a significant claim for damages brought by a claimant involved in a serious road traffic accident. There was a head-on collision in which t...

Cases involving brain injury are complex and very hard fought. The victim has endured life changing injuries. All too often these problems are then compounded by arguments, over many years, covering w...

The cauda equina is Latin for ‘horse’s tail’ which describes the collection of nerves at the bottom of the spinal cord. These nerves are particularly vulnerable to injury because they travel bey...