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2015

Costs budgeting: are incurred costs untouchable?

How do you get around costs budgeting? One might have thought by incurring considerable costs before the CCMC: Practice direction 3E 7.4 states that the court may not approve costs incurred before the date of a budget. In GSK Project Management Ltd…

Grahame Aldous QC secures £2.3 million damages for a single leg amputee

A young man who made a remarkable recovery after a life threatening boating accident has received damages of over £2.3 million.

The Claimant suffered an above knee amputation of his leg after he was struck by the propeller of a rescue boat…

Sherlock Holmes in the Court of Appeal

 
“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
 
  
The Sign of Four begins with a bored Holmes mired in cocaine addiction,…

Clinical Negligence Claims in England and Wales August 2015

On 16 July I produced an annual summary of the state of the Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Claims Market in England and Wales, bringing together the figures from various Government bodies: the Courts, the CRU and the NHSLA.

By co-incidence on…

Part 25 applications: A cautionary tale for practitioners

This was a private law case in front of magistrates where the mother was represented by counsel and the father, a Serbian whose first language was not English, was in person.  The mother had concerns that the father had a personality disorder….

Post separation accruals: JB v MB [2015] EWHC 1846 (Fam)

This is a decision of Nicholas Cusworth QC sitting as a High Court Judge which contains a useful summary of the authorities relating to post-separation asset accruals.

The parties began their cohabitation in 1990, the year before H, a systems analyst by…

Claire Harden-Frost successfully prosecutes historic sex offence case

Following a successful prosecution by Claire Harden-Frost, Leon George Eastwood (59) was convicted on 18 August 2015 of 2 counts of rape and 3 indecent assaults.  He was sentenced today (19 August) to a total of 17 years imprisonment. 
The offences…

Scrutiny of Medical Evidence & Physiotherapy Charges in low-value PI cases

I recently acted for an insurer in a routine low value personal injury case (to which QOCS applied) which had an unusual twist.

 

The claimant claimed damages for neck injuries sustained in a road traffic accident. He signed the…

Jennifer Newcomb secures successful relief from sanctions application, three weeks before trial

Jennifer Newcomb successfully obtained relief from sanctions on behalf of a Claimant who had failed to file witness evidence in support of his quantum claim in a multi-track personal injury action. Witness evidence was served 6 months prior to the trial date,…

Cyrus Katrak joins 9 Gough Chambers

9 Gough Chambers is delighted to annouce that Cyrus Katrak has joined 9 Gough Chambers.
Cyrus joins us from 3PB and specialises in personal injury and clinical negligence cases.

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