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The basic principle of compensation for a personal injury is, as far as possible, to put the claimant back into the same position had the accident not have happened.  It sounds simple.  It is not. ...

Anthony Gold’s Injury & Medical Claims department specialises in dealing with claimants who have sustained a brain injury following an accident or negligent treatment. In this article, one of...

The case of Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Limited v Dr Asef Zafar [2019] EWCA 392 (Civ) is a sobering reminder that one bad apple can spoil the barrel. It is a case involving extreme dishonest...

At the beginning of this year, I wrote a blog looking at how claims for pure psychiatric injury are treated differently to claims for physical injury.  This can be found here.  With the recently hel...

With the recent decision of Barclays Bank -v- Various Claimants [July 2018] it is worth looking at the concept of vicarious liaility again.  This case doesn’t necessarily create new law but rather...

It has now been a few years since the decision in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board (Scotland) Hilary Term [2015] UKSC 11. In that case, their Lordships concluded that the Bolam test was not a...

We live in a society which positively  encourages people to view mental health on the same terms as physical health in a bid to remove the stigma surrounding mental health issues. In recent years we...

David Marshall & Amanda Hopkins outline a high stake claim for Stress at work, Marsh v MoJ.  Click the link to download the full article featured in PI Focus - Stress Position....