Jones (by Caldwell) (Respondent) v First Tier Tribunal (Respondent) and Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (Appellant) – Supreme Court
Supreme Court, 17th April 2013
Category: personal injuries
Flatman v Germany(Law Society intervening); Weddall v Barchester Health Care Ltd (Same intervening) – WLR Daily
“The funding of a client’s disbursements by a solicitor did not, without more, justify the making of an adverse costs order against that solicitor.”
WLR Daily, 10th April 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
April Fool’s – The Barristers’ Hub
“The 1st of April 2013 marks the implementation of a swathe of changes to the Civil Procedure Rules as part of the implementation of the ‘Jackson Report’ into civil procedure and funding. The aim of the report, in the words of Jackson, L. J. himself, is ‘to promote access to justice at proportionate cost’.”
The Barristers’ Hub, 5th April 2013
Source: www.barristershub.co.uk
Kent Council Council pays £700k in compensation to pupils – BBC News
“Nearly £700,000 has been paid out in compensation to pupils by Kent County Council following accidents in schools over the past five years.”
BBC News, 6th April 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Police officer suing petrol station also taking action against force – The Guardian
“A police officer criticised for taking legal action against a petrol station owner after she tripped on a kerb answering a 999 call is also making a claim against her own force, it has been reported.”
The Guardian, 7th April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Police officer to sue garage owner after tripping on kerb – The Guardian
“Police Federation says PC Kelly Jones will press ahead with lawsuit after injuring leg and wrist at petrol station.”
The Guardian, 2nd April 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
£400,000 for teacher hurt in filing cabinet – Daily Telegraph
“The payout was the largest given to teachers last year. It was secured by the Nation Union of Teachers after the employee, from the South West, was left with chronic pain and forced to quit his job.”
Daily Telegraph, 29th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Rise in teachers’ injury payouts – The Guardian
“Teachers won record amounts of compensation last year after suffering accidents, injuries or assaults at school, figures show.”
The Guardian, 29th March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Compensation culture: Fact or fantasy? – Speech by the Master of the Rolls
“In my Presidential address I want to examine ‘compensation culture’. This I imagine is something with which W. S. Holdsworth, notwithstanding his truly encyclopaedic knowledge of English law, would have been unfamiliar. We can let him off though. The term was apparently not coined until 1993; when it first appeared in The Times newspaper in an article by Bernard Levin entitled Addicted to welfare.”
Judiciary of England and Wales, 15th March 2013
Source: www.judiciary.gov.uk
Cold-calling prosecutions planned – Law Society’s Gazette
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is ready to prosecute up to a dozen more companies who carry out cold-calling and send spam text messages.
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd March 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Jackson reforms: trials and tribulation – Law Society’s Gazette
“One could be forgiven for thinking the campaign to halt or defer the main planks of the civil justice reforms devised by Sir Rupert Jackson is still in full swing. To be fair to the refusniks, the impression that all was not settled has been given in part by the last-minute approach the Ministry of Justice has taken to issuing details on implementation. If the government and the senior judiciary had yet to say what was to come on, respectively, damages-based agreements and big-ticket costs budgeting, perhaps they were still open to persuasion?”
Law Society’s Gazette, 25th March 2013
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Man sued council for £33,000 after slipping on some berries – Daily Telegraph
“A man successfully sued his town council for nearly £33,000 after slipping on some berries while walking through a churchyard and breaking a bone.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Trouble for personal injury law firms means trouble for claimants – The Guardian
“While there is little public sympathy for solicitors the truth is that people will soon find it harder to claim compensation.”
The Guardian, 21st March 2013
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Brumder v Motornet Service and Repairs Ltd and another – WLR Daily
Brumder v Motornet Service and Repairs Ltd and another [2013] EWCA Civ 195; [2013] WLR (D) 102
“In a personal injury claim, it did not lie in the mouth of a claimant who was a defendant company’s sole director and shareholder to assert that the company had not proved that it had done all it could to ensure compliance with safety regulations when it was only through the claimant that the company could act. In such a case the company would be entitled to raise a defence to that effect.”
WLR Daily, 14th March 2013
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Public bodies ‘spending millions to snoop’ – BBC News
“A wide range of public bodies are using private detectives to do their surveillance work, with many using security firms to dodge legal restrictions, a campaign group says.”
BBC News, 17th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
£1million compensation for man who fell in pothole – Daily Telegraph
“A man who suffered a brain injury after tripping in a pothole has won an
estimated an estimated £1 million in damages.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th March 2013
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Car insurance: MPs to investigate impact of whiplash claims – BBC News
“MPs are to investigate the extent to which claims for whiplash injuries are
pushing up the cost of car insurance.”
BBC News, 15th March 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
The future of personal injury – land of opportunity or time to get out? – Legal Futures
“What many personal injury (PI) firms have long feared is finally upon us, and there is no turning back.”
Legal Futures, 14th March 2013
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
Sub-£2m cases “will be subject to costs management” amid criticism of big-case exemption – Litigation Futures
“Cases before the Chancery Division, Technology and Construction Court (TCC), and Mercantile Courts that are worth less than £2m will be subject to costs management, it was confirmed yesterday.”
Litigation Futures, 22nd February 2013
Source: www.litigationfutures.com
Denham ‘crash for cash’ men jailed for Baljinder Gill death – BBC News
“Three men who deliberately caused a car crash that led to another collision in which a woman died have been jailed.”
BBC News, 15th February 2013
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
