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Recent case law has reminded claimant lawyers to be careful to comply properly with the rules on service of the Claim Form or risk having the claim struck out. The service provisions are found in P...

The Court of Appeal has ruled that a district judge was wrong in not applying the usual costs consequences to a claimant’s late acceptance of a defendant’s Part 36 offer. In the recently decide...

The Office of Rail and Road shows that a staggering number of rail accidents happen each year, not only causing major disruption but also resulting in injuries, which at times are fatal. The cause...

In the recent case of Stanton v Hunter (2017) CC (Liverpool) (Recorder SA Hatfield QC) 31/03/2017  AC0154723CC(Liverpool), the Court was asked by the defendant to apply section 57 of the Criminal Jus...

Unfortunately, food poisoning is a fairly common occurrence. In most cases, the food is contaminated by bacteria, such as Escherichia coli (E. coli), salmonella or a virus, such as the norovirus. S...

It’s fair to say that most people were very surprised last week when the Prime Minister called a snap general election to be held on 8 June.  MPs then voted, by a margin of 509, in favour of the po...

Accidents at work are all too common. As a firm dealing with catastrophic injury cases we will have several cases involving workplace accidents at any one time. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE...

Almost two years ago, in March 2015, I wrote about the landmark decision in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Board (Scotland) [2015] .  As a reminder, I have briefly set out the facts of the case below. M...