Content by Tom Panton

Ropewalk Chambers will be holding our third conference in Lincoln on Thursday 19 September 2024 at the DoubleTree by Hilton, Lincoln. Our team of expert barristers will be holding talks on various topics related to Personal Injury, Clinical Negligence, Inquests and Costs. The event is aimed at solicitors, legal executives, claims handlers, case funders. Registration will…

Rochelle Rong and Tom Panton consider the legal principles governing claims for workplace stress, revisiting the seminal case of Hatton v Sutherland from 2002 and discussing developments in the law since that time, and discuss the extent to which these cases overlap with claims in respect of workplace bullying and harassment. Agenda This webinar is…

This blog reviews the forthcoming changes to the QOCS regime which will reverse the effect of Ho v Adelekun [2021] UKSC 43 and other recent cases. The Civil Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2023/105 (for brevity, ‘the Amendment Rules’) are about to amend the CPR’s QOCS provisions in an apparent attempt to negate the effects of various recent authorities,…

On 16 May 2017 Mrs Hazel Brown tragically drowned when her car left the C164 highway near Redruth in Cornwall and entered the Stithians Reservoir. This case concerned a fatal accident claim by her family against the two occupiers of the reservoir and against the local highway authority. At first instance, before HHJ Allan Gore QC…

Anyone practising in employer’s liability personal injury litigation will be familiar with the strict approach to liability for work equipment imposed by the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (“PUWER”). Regulation 5 of PUWER imposed strict liability in relation to defective equipment, arising from the extremely well-known decision in Stark v Post Office…

Presented by Jayne Adams QC and Tom Panton, this webinar covered employers’ liability for psychiatric injuries caused by work-related stress. It reviewed long-established principles in relation to foreseeability, duty of care, and breach of duty, analyse recent developments, and consider how the law in this complex and ever-changing area might cope with claims arising from the challenges of COVID19.…