All Personal injury & clinical negligence articles – Page 23
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News
MoJ starts countdown clock on discount rate change
Lord chancellor will today announce the immediate start of a review into the adjustment applied to personal injury damages.
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News
Court backs recoverability of agency fees in PI claims
Judge allows recovery of ‘reasonable and proportionate’ cost of obtaining records.
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Opinion
Struggling after a career break
I need tips on how I can secure employment – full-time or part-time.
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News
'Buy any files' firm bets on PI future with Manchester move
'Ideal time for a fresh new legal face in the North West,' says Hudgell Solicitors.
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Opinion
Medical negligence and the 'compensation culture'
Adam Kay’s swipe at clinical negligence lawyers in his book ’This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor’ is unfair.
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Law Report
5 November 2018
This week’s starred digests include limitation, administration, vesting in trustee, and business transfer schemes post-Brexit.
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News
IBA Rome: Artificial intelligence must mean strict liability – and higher insurance premiums
’The law needs to try not to multiply problems of dealing with AI and should not invest AI with legal personality,’ says Nicholas Tse
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Opinion
Fore! Ryder Cup claim could hinge on the warning
Spectator reportedly considering legal action: what are her chances of success?
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News
LASPO ban is 'driving referral fees underground'
NHS Resolution says the idea that claimants want to be represented by a firm 300 miles away 'strains credibility'.
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Solicitors' patient data demands anger GPs
Tensions are rising between doctors and solicitors as GP surgeries complain of being bombarded with requests for free copies of patient records.
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Opinion
All about the money
This week’s news tells two very different stories about civil dispute resolution.
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News
Crash course in whiplash
Last week’s Commons debate on the Civil Liability Bill lasted three-and-a-half hours, forcing MPs to miss the latest episode of Great British Bake Off.
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News
Liverpool mayor hails ambitious offshoot of US class action firm
Northern Powerhouse minister Jake Berry joins Liverpool Joe Anderson in lauding SPG Law, which aims to be one the biggest claimant firms in the north-west by the end of the year.
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News
Small claims limit exemption for ‘vulnerable’ road users?
The government last week hinted at a concession in its reforms of the personal injury sector.
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News
Third time lucky? Bolton solicitor sets up new firm
National Property Lawyers Ltd was incorporated on 3 July.
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News
Claims farmers to foot £16.8m bill for regulation
Financial Conduct Authority publishes proposals for taking over supervision, proposing to levy fees up-front.
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Call for 'urgent legal reform' as clin neg damages soar 50%
Clinical negligence litigation has fallen to its lowest level ever - but damages payments rocketed by £549m last year.
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Opinion
Time to uncover the cover-up
It was in early 2017 that the contaminated blood scandal first found its way onto our desks, and what we came to learn was truly shocking.