“Distinct from the situation of loose horses straying on to the road is the case where a horse with a rider comes into contact with traffic. This will sometimes lead to the rider either suing the driver or the driver suing the rider and with a subsequent counter claim.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 17th November 2011
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“The Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders passed its second reading in the House of Lords last night after an eight-hour battering from peers. Following a debate in which 51 of the 54 members who rose to speak criticised the bill, justice minister Lord McNally, responding for the government, promised ‘to listen’ to the ‘strong concerns’ raised particularly in relation to domestic violence and clinical negligence.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd November 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“An Oxford boy left brain damaged after complications during his birth has been given £1m compensation.”
BBC News, 19th November 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Berry v Star Autos Ltd and others [2011] EWCA Civ 1304; [2011] WLR (D) 327
“On a claim to which there were two or more defendants the court had power to order an interim payment under CPR r 25.7(1)(e) if it were satisfied that at least one of the defendants against whom the application for interim payment was being made would be held liable and each of those defendants was insured; the fact that there might be another defendant who was not insured was immaterial.”
WLR Daily, 10th November 2011
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“Too many babies have been killed or seriously injured through child abuse because of failings by the authorities that are repeated across the country, a report has found.”
The Guardian, 26th October 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Geoffrey Boycott, the former Yorkshire and England cricketer, launched a £1m-plus claim against lawyers he says let him down on a property deal.”
Daily Telegraph, 12th October 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A coroner has ruled a verdict of natural causes by neglect contributed to a Somerset toddler’s death.”
BBC News, 13th October 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Since the early 1990s it has been common place for ‘the ordinary domestic householder purchasing his own home’ to pursue the valuer contracted by the prospective mortgagee for negligent over-valuation.”
Hardwicke Chambers, 19th September 2011
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
“Action Against Medical Accidents has launched a legal challenge against the government’s controversial plans to scrap legal aid for clinical negligence cases.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
“The family of a Berkshire woman who died after a serious asthma attack has received a six-figure compensation settlement after a hospital trust admitted it was negligent.”
BBC News, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A plan to cut legal aid for patients left physically or mentally damaged by NHS care is being legally challenged by a medical safety charity. Action against Medical Accidents (AvMA) has issued judicial review proceedings against the Government on the basis that the cuts are ‘irrational and unfair’. Seriously injured patients, such as babies who suffer brain damage as a result of substandard obstetrics care, will be denied the compensation that their families need to provide proper care for them, according to AvMA.”
The Independent, 22nd September 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Lord Justice Jackson spoke in strong terms last week to the Cambridge Law Faculty on the controversial topic of legal aid and legal costs reforms.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 13th September 2011
Source: www.http://ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The family of a man from Stoke-on-Trent who died after a life-threatening illness was misdiagnosed as a groin strain has received a substantial six figure settlement.”
BBC News, 1st September 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Government’s plans to slash the soaring legal aid bill threaten to cost the NHS millions and exclude many victims of medical negligence from justice, the National Health Service’s own lawyers have warned.”
The Independent, 28th August 2011
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The owner of a care home, Annette Hopkins, represented by Kate Lumsdon (23es) and Barry McElduff (2KBW), had her conviction for negligence quashed by the Court of Appeal, who cast doubt over the viability of the offence created by the Mental Capacity Act 2005: R v Hopkins and Priest [2011]EWCA Crim 1513. The Court of Appeal, quashing the conviction on other grounds, held that in its view the offence as drafted failed the test of sufficient certainty. The Court was however bound by precedent: R v Dunn [2010] EWCA Crim 2935.”
23 Essex Street, 17th August 2011
Source: www.23es.com
“A former paramedic is seeking compensation and an investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) after part of his brain was removed in error by an NHS surgeon.”
The Guardian, 23rd August 2011
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided that George Collier should be charged with gross negligence manslaughter in relation to the death of Meg Burgess on 26 July 2008 in Prestatyn, Wales.”
Crown Prosecution Service, 5th August 2011
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“A company director faces a manslaughter charge after a three-year-old girl died when a wall collapsed on a footpath in Denbighshire.”
BBC News, 5th August 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has decided that George Collier should be charged with gross negligence manslaughter in relation to the death of Megan Burgess on 26 July 2008 in Prestatyn, Wales.”
Crown Prosecution Service,
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
“Clinical negligence claims against the National Health Service have increased by almost a third over the past year, with an extra £100million paid out to victims of medical blunders.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th August 2011
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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