In 2017 Lord Sumption delivered a lecture to the Personal Injuries Bar Association entitled, “The
Death of Personal Injury Law”. This was (probably) just a provocative lecture title, rather than a
manifesto. However, it may be fair to say that the content of this presentation sprang from
scepticism about the use of personal injury law (as it has developed in our jurisdiction) as a
means to achieve fairness and justice in the provision of remedy and compensation.
Laura Johnson KC and James Byrne have secured a multi-million pound settlement for a young woman who suffered horrifying avulsion injuries including the total loss of her scalp and right ear when her ponytail became trapped in factory drill. This was a highly unusual and…
We hope our readers enjoyed the long Easter weekend and grasped the opportunity, as we did, to spend a restful few days away from the coalface. We kept one eye on the courts though, and it’s just as well we did, because last week brought…
On 10 April 2025, the Court of Appeal handed down Judgment in Re M (A Child) [2025] EWCA Civ 440, providing long awaited guidance for deciding whether and when to grant intermediary assistance to vulnerable parties in family proceedings. An intermediary is someone whose function…
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