Injured boy awarded £8.1m payout – BBC News
“A court has awarded what is thought to be a record compensation payment of £8.1m to a boy who was accidentally run over by his father on a family day out.”
BBC News, 7th April 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: personal injuries
Orchard v Lee and another – WLR Daily
Orchard v Lee and another [2009] EWCA Civ 295; [2009] WLR (D) 130
“A child at school playing a game in an authorised play area who was not breaking any rules and who was not acting beyond the norms of the game would not have anticipated that some significant personal injury would result from his actions and so was not liable for an injury caused to a playground supervisor.”
WLR Daily, 6th April 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Boy playing tag not liable for dinner lady’s injury – The Times
“Senior judges hearing a test case at the Court of Appeal have thrown out a claim by a dinner lady who was badly injured by a schoolboy playing tag. Michelle Orchard, 42, was claiming thousands of pounds in damages from Sebastian Lee, who was 13 when he tumbled backwards into her in the playground at Corfe Hills School in Corfe Mullen, Dorset.”
The Times, 4th April 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
£400,000 award for finger injury – The Guardian
“A mechanic who injured his index and middle fingers while repairing a police car, yesterday won £400,000 in damages from the Metropolitan police.”
The Guardian, 1st April 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Runner’s £15k dog damages voided – BBC News
“A runner who was awarded £15,000 compensation after a Great Dane pushed him over while he jogged, has had the award cancelled by the Court of Appeal.”
BBC News, 30th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Delay in ‘toxic sofa’ payout – BBC News
“Hundreds of people who suffered burns and rashes from faulty leather sofas will have to wait longer to find out if they are to be paid compensation.”
BBC News, 27th March 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Lawyers finalising ‘sofa rash’ compensation bid – The Independent
“Lawyers were today finalising a compensation bid on behalf of more than 4,000 customers allegedly left with rashes and burns after buying faulty sofas.”
The Independent, 27th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Laroche v Spirit of Adventure (UK) Ltd – Times Law Reports
Laroche v Spirit of Adventure (UK) Ltd
Court of Appeal
“A hot-air balloon was an aircraft governed by the Warsaw Convention on International Carriage by Air 1929, as scheduled to the Carriage by Air Act, 1961 and a passenger in it had to bring an action for personal injuries within the two-year period in article 29 of Schedule 1 to the Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order (SI 1967 No 480).”
The Times, 24th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Met chief orders inquiry on beaten terror suspect – The Independent
“Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson last night demanded an urgent independent inquiry into why officers who arrested a terror suspect refused to give evidence to a High Court hearing into allegations of abuse.”
The Independent, 19th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Dinner lady injured by running schoolboy seeks damages in ‘cotton wool culture’ case – Daily Telegraph
“A dinner lady who suffered serious injuries when a schoolboy ran into her is seeking substantial damages in a case that could worsen Britain’s ‘cotton wool culture’.”
Daily Telegraph, 18th March 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Man awarded £90,000 after suicide attempt – The Independent
“A man who tried to kill himself has successfully sued the hospital which saved his life for £90,000 damages.”
The Independent, 6th March 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Peters v East Midlands Strategic Health Authority and another (Nottingham City Council, Part 20 defendant) – WLR Daily
“A severely disabled claimant was entitled as of right to damages from the tortfeasor in preference to dependence on the statutory obligations of the local authority to provide accommodation and care for her. For the purposes of disregarding damages for personal injuries from charging provisions in respect of accommodation and care provided by local authorities, all the heads of damage were to be disregarded, not only those for pain, suffering and loss of amenity.”
WLR Daily, 4th March 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Barclay v British Airways plc – Times Law Reports
Court of Appeal
“A passenger slipping on a plastic strip embedded in the floor of an aircraft was not an accident since there was no distinct event which was not part of the usual, normal and expected operation of the aircraft and which had happened independently of anything done or omitted by the passenger.”
The Times, 4th March 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Craner v Dorset County Council – Times Law Reports
Craner v Dorset County Council
Court of Appeal
“It was no defence for a county council which left paving slabs uneven, causing injuries to a school caretaker, to say that what had occurred was a freak accident which could not have been prevented or guarded against.”
The Times, 27th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Woman gets £30,000 payout from M&S after slipping on grapes – Daily Telegraph
“A woman has obtained nearly £30,000 in compensation after she slipped on two grapes and broke her shoulder in a Marks & Spencer store.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th February 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Road accident victims ‘bullied into settling’ by insurers – The Times
“Motor accident victims are facing high pressure tactics from insurers to settle for less compensation than they are entitled to receive, a leading accident lawyer said this evening.”
The Times, 5th February 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Maher and Maher v Groupama Grand Est – WLR Daily
Maher and Maher v Groupama Grand Est; [2009] WLR (D) 21
“On a personal injury claim brought by English claimants against French insurers in respect of a road traffic accident in France in 2005 damages were to be assessed by reference to English law, not French law, but the issue whether there was a right to claim interest by way of damages was to be determined under French law, though any question about the rate of interest was to be determined under English law.”
WLR Daily, 26th January 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Do atomic test victims deserve compensation? – The Times
“Fifty years ago the UK Government began a series of atomic and thermonuclear weapons tests on the Australian mainland, on Christmas Island and elsewhere in the South Pacific. About 25,000 members of the British, Australian and New Zealand Armed Forces, many national servicemen, and some Fijians, took part in the testing programme — either actively or as bystanders. This week nearly 1,000 veterans took their multimillion-pound compensation claim against the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to the High Court. They say they have suffered illnesses — including cancers, skin defects and fertility problems — because of exposure to radiation from the tests.”
The Times, 22nd January 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Laroche v Spirit of Adventure (UK) Ltd – WLR Daily
Laroche v Spirit of Adventure (UK) Ltd [2009] EWCA Civ 12; [2009] WLR (D) 14
“Giving a purposive construction to Sch 1 to the Carriage by Air Acts (Application of Provisions) Order 1967, a hot-air balloon was an aircraft, within the meaning of art 1, and the person flying in it was a passenger of the aircraft, within the meaning of art 17, whether he paid for his flight or not.”
WLR Daily, 21st January 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Nuclear test veterans launch case – BBC News
“Veterans involved in British nuclear tests in the Indian and Pacific oceans are to launch a legal bid against the government at the High Court later.”
BBC News, 21st January 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
