...months. Noting that not calling evidence was a legitimate tactical move in the adversarial system of litigation, Lord Diplock nonetheless said: “but a defendant who adopts it cannot complaint if...
...months. Noting that not calling evidence was a legitimate tactical move in the adversarial system of litigation, Lord Diplock nonetheless said: “but a defendant who adopts it cannot complaint if...
...the Defendants, when judged by the standards of the time, had not acted in breach of duty. Stricter standards in relation to control of asbestos exposure did not come into...
...protracted and complicated psychiatric medical history, Defendants may well face an uphill struggle in persuading the Court that the Claimant’s complaint is motivated by dishonesty, as opposed to a genuinely...
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...(CES-S), Incomplete (CES-I), Retention (CES-R) and Complete (CES-C). All patients with CES experience a deterioration, but the rate of it varies between patients. Sometimes the deterioration is complete within hours....
...and that of attributability to the defendants’ conduct” (emphasis added). The Decision in Roach In Roach, the Claimants were the parents of a man who had committed suicide in prison. They instructed solicitors...
Stephen Beresford has been ranked in the Chambers UK Bar 2017 for Commercial Dispute Resolution (Band 2). He attracts widespread praise for his comprehensive commercial, property and chancery practice. He...
...commence on 13 April 2021. The value of the claim was highly contentious. The Claimant initially valued the claim in excess of £12.5 million whilst the Defendant advanced a counter-schedule...
...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...
...had “concluded before the trial had commenced”, within the meaning of former CPR rule 45.24(1)(b)(i), and that a 27.5% uplift was appropriate. Agreement was otherwise reached in respect of the...
...1993 the Special Account Rate (SAR) which is used to compute interest on past loss stood at 8% pa and so interest on past losses was often worth arguing about....
...vehicle due to a combination of excessive speed and icy road conditions and collided with a tree just off the highway. NYCC were brought in by the First Defendant (and...