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Howard Cohen successfully defends Hertfordshire County Council
Howard Cohen recently appeared for Hertfordshire County Council in a trial following a slipping accident that befell the Claimant, a teaching assistant, in a school in Hitchin. The school was situated in a countryside location and was surrounded by many large and leafy trees. Her account was that she had slipped and fallen on wet […]
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Guidance as to Incorporation of Standard Terms & Conditions
Ian Ridd represented the Defendant in an important case in the Technology and Construction Court this week, which considered and provided valuable guidance to practitioners about incorporation of parties’ standard terms and conditions of business into commercial contracts. In Transformers & Rectifiers Ltd v Needs Ltd, [2015] EWHC 269 (TCC), Edwards-Stuart J analysed the legal […]
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Funding uncertain future medical treatment
John Leighton Williams QC discusses funding uncertain future medical treatment and the decisions in Peters v East Midlands SHA and Carter v Powys Local Health Board and Others. The decision in Peters v East Midlands SHA [2009] EWCA Civ 145 enables all those who genuinely seek private medical treatment to claim the cost of the […]
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Ambulance service negligent over asthma patient
An ambulance crew had been negligent in failing to appreciate that an asthma patient was in a life-threatening condition. Had they performed basic observations they would have realised that the patient needed ipratropium, adrenaline and salbutamol. Their failure to administer those drugs was negligent and resulted in the patient’s death. The claimant (W) brought a […]
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Defamation case struck out
Matthew Hodson successfully applied to the High Court for strike out of a defamation case that had been brought against a national hotel chain. The claimant alleged that hotel employees had defamed him by unnecessarily referring to untrue criminal allegations when banning him from the premises. The claim was struck out on the basis that […]
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2015: The Year of the QOCS?
Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting (‘QOCS’) is increasingly a part of the repertoire of the personal injury lawyer as the cohort of post 1.4.13 cases increases. The Court of Appeal has considered the lawfulness of the QOCS regime and addressed a number of other issues of its applicability in Wagenaar v Weekend Travel Ltd, T/A Ski […]
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Character evidence in Personal Injury claims
The recent case of Laughton v Shalaby [2014] EWCA Civ 1450 gives a reminder of the test for admissibility of bad character evidence in civil cases but also an opportunity to look at what types of evidence on credibility or bad character would be admissible and indeed useful in personal injury claims. The possible bad […]
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Contributory Negligence
The Law Reform (Contributory Negligence) Act 1945 provides: “1. Where any person suffers damage as the result partly of his own fault and partly of the fault of any other person or persons, a claim in respect of that damage shall not be defeated by reason of the fault of the person suffering the damage, […]
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