...has overall responsibility for Chambers’ administration and sits on Chambers’ Management and Equality and Diversity Committees. He was a founding co-Chair of the Nottinghamshire Law Society Equality and Diversity Committee. ...
...reasons, for refusing to impose a duty of care for omissions and failures to prevent, outweigh the common law rules on providing compensation for tortiously caused damage or injury. Ritchie...
...[1994] Ch 205 determined that when a wasted costs order is contemplated, a three-stage test is to be applied: Had the legal representative of whom complaint was made acted improperly,...
On Friday 28th July, Tom Carter appeared for the successful claimant in an unlawful detention claim in the High Court. For the full Judgment please click here...
...time each day he used the impact wrench and the hammers of being between 30 minutes and 1 hour per day on average. The Engineering Evidence: Interpretation and Application of...
Are Claimants entitled to advocate’s costs when no advocacy has occurred? Thomas Herbert reviews conflicting case law. Click here to view the full article. This article was first published in...
...Royal Marines at the age of 24 years for a 20-year engagement. He had shown commitment in doing so, further both to the treatment necessary to remove a tattoo, and...
...crew team. These issues are now coming before the civil courts. A collective case management order was made in June 2019 concerning a number of claims brought in the High...
...support for Long Covid (also known as Long Haul Covid) to be recognised as an occupational disease and for a compensation scheme to be set up for those infected during their...
...Laws LJ held that: at common law, wrongdoers who together cause “a single indivisible injury” are each liable to compensate the Claimant for the whole of the injury suffered (see...
...ago as November 1999, recommended “extending the list to include the deceased’s children, siblings and long-term partner” (see Law Commission, Claims for Wrongful Death (Law Com No 263, 1999), Executive Summary)....
...standard of care is often considered by reference to the test laid down in the case of Bolam v Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] WLR 582. In Bolam, the Claimant...