Gastric Illness Claims
The Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Wood v TUI Travel PLC [2017] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 322
on 16th January 2017. It is the first appellate authority regarding the liability of travel companies
for gastric illness caused by alleged food poisoning, and is one of the most important decisions
for the industry in recent times.
Laura Elfield has been appointed as a NHS Resolution Panel mediator to mediate clinical negligence claims against the NHS. NHS Resolution has appointed Global Mediation as one of three national providers of mediation services for clinical negligence, personal injury and workplace mediation services. Laura is one of eight mediators…
In this week’s Dekagram Linda Nelson explores an area likely to be of increasing interest to practitioners this year; liability for use and misuse of weight-loss drugs, whilst John Schmitt explains the recent decision of Mr Justice Poole in care proceedings regarding the question of…
Last year, Mark Bradley, instructed by Terry Wilcox of Hudgell Solicitors, represented the families of three people killed by drivers with failing vision. At the inquest HM Senior Coroner for Lancashire, Dr James Adeley, highlighted that the UK was one of only three countries to…
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