Features – Page 4

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Fraud in PI law claims

28 July 2014

The Law Commission’s retreat on fraud in personal injury is welcome, but raises troubling questions.

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Care in custody failings

21 July 2014

The death of Brian Dalrymple highlights care shortcomings.

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PI diversification poses risks

2014-07-09T11:36:00Z

The trend of non-specialist firms moving into clinical negligence work in a bid to shore up revenues following LASPO could have damaging consequences for the profession.

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Mesothelioma compensation

5 May 2014

Mesothelioma Act 2014 does not go far enough for victims of asbestos-related illness.

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Complex regional pain

28 April 2014

A consideration of the circumstances in which injuries first considered as innocuous can turn into a catastrophic injury claim.

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Photographic evidence – acceptable manipulation?

2014-04-10T11:58:00Z

What is permissible when images of personal injuries are produced to be used as evidence?

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Civil procedure: CPR 6.9

10 March 2014

A recent case offers a reminder of the need to carefully consider the rules on service of the claim form.

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Vicarious liability – the two-stage test

10 March 2014

When is an employer responsible for the actions of its employees?

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Local government: abuse of power

10 February 2014

A council that evicted a solicitors’ firm from authority-owned offices did so as a ‘punishment’.

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Reasonable foreseeability

4 November 2013

The opportunity for a claimant injured at work to rely on a statutory breach was reduced on 1 October by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act (ERRA) 2013.

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Roundtable: personal injury

23 September 2013

The Gazette’s latest roundtable looks at the future of claimant personal injury.

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Mesothelioma Bill

29 July 2013

‘One has also to bear in mind that, typically, the worst symptoms of pain, suffering and loss of amenity occur in the last weeks and days of the disease’s progress and that the death… is a horrible one.’(Senior Master Whitaker: Smith v Bolton Copper Limited: Unreported 10 July 2007 QBD) ...

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Assessing costs in clinical negligence cases

22 July 2013

Clinical negligence practitioners on both the claimant and defendant sides are waiting with bated breath to see how courts will deal with arguments on proportionality.