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I have for many years represented children who have unfortunately sustained a brain injury through the fault of another person.Many have been under the age of 5 when they sustained the injury. All the...

After a delay of almost 6 years, it has now been confirmed that The Third Parties (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010 will come into force on 1 August 2016.What is so important about the Act? ...

A little over a year ago the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 came into force.  Section 57 of that statute provided insurers and their solicitors with a further weapon in their armoury and that...

On the face of it, Lear v Hickstead Ltd and W H Security Ltd appears another first instance decision turning on the facts and ultimately that is the case. However, the case is useful in that it provid...

For any practitioner undertaking fatal accident personal injury work, this decision is long awaited.  Seven Supreme Court judges sat on 28 January 2016 considering this “leapfrog” appeal from the...

The case of AC (a minor suing by his father and litigation friend MC) v St Georges Healthcare NHS Trust before Mrs Justice Whipple on 15 December 2015 should give claimant lawyers renewed determinatio...

1 December 2015 sees the launch of the third version of the voluntary rehabilitation code for injury claims, some 16 years on from the first code.  The code is aimed at promoting a deepened collabora...

The case of Dzekova v Thomas Eggar LLP emphasises the importance of checking the address for service of Court proceedings is compliant with rule 6.8 of the Civil Procedure Rules.  Whilst fact specifi...