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In this Deka Chambers Personal Injury Team briefing we are focusing on recent topical developments in the quantum and settlement fields.
Hugh Rimmer provides a practical assessment of the case of Barry v MOD, which addressed the correct approach to adjustments for…
In this webinar, Edward Lamb covers:
Protected parties and the CPR: reaching parts the White Book cannot
The new CPR Part 21 a missed opportunity?
White Book guidance on capacity to be treated with caution
Practical solutions to low value, high…
Keen readers may recall a previous article of mine in the April 2021 edition of PI focus titled ‘Life and Limb – tips on running amputation claims’. The present article is very much a follow-up to that earlier effort and offers further…
In Mohamud v Morrisons Supermarkets (2016) AC 677, Lord Dyson MR observed that:
“To search for certainty and precision in vicarious liability is to undertake a quest for a chimaera”
Nonetheless, since Mohamud was decided in 2016, that quest has continued in…
We’re delighted to welcome Abigail Stamp back to chambers this week following her parental leave.
Abigail has a broad and varied practice, representing both claimants and defendants in personal injury, clinical negligence and inquests.
To instruct Abigail contact the clerks…
Shortly before Christmas, I wrote
1. This is the fourth and final article in a short series which focuses on case law which may assist in the defence of claims against Highways Authorities under s.41 of the Highways Act 1980.
2. In this article, and inspired at…
Work Accident Claims and Insolvency: A whistlestop tour
A range of issues are thrown up in a work accident claim where either the claimant or defendant becomes insolvent. Less common, but it does come up in work accident claims is the insolvency…
1. This is the third short article in a series focusing on lesser-known case law which may assist in defending claims brought against highways authorities for failing to maintain the highway under section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 and its predecessors.
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