Published: 13/08/2020
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In the third of our summer Back to Basics series, Back to Basics: Limitation in Personal Injury Cases, Paul Stagg and Susanna Bennett examine limitation issues in personal injury cases, giving practitioners an up-to-date understanding on when the primary limitation period starts to run against a claimant, and when the limitation period can be disapplied.
This week we examine an unusual arbitration case involving (or did it?) a foreign limitation period; and another decision on the tension between open justice and protection of commercially sensitive information (we understand, by the way, that on 25th February the Court of Appeal will…
This week we look at two decisions, both of which will be of critical importance to practitioners in pursuance of contested litigation. In one, unusually, without prejudice correspondence was admissible in a case involving fundamental dishonesty; whilst in the other, the court reviewed the authorities…
Following a 5-day liability trial in the High Court in Manchester, the Claimant’s negligence and Human Rights Act claims were dismissed by HHJ Bird sitting as a Judge of the High Court. The Claimant was a Type 1 diabetic who suffered from a history of…
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