This edition reports on a successful defence of a Highways Act claim relating to a kerb upstand involving measurement controversy and dangerousness, together with various case updates.
This edition includes various case summaries covering fundamental dishonesty, third party costs order in credit hire and a failed application for summary judgment.
This edition reports on a successful defence involving a loose manhole cover, which gave rise to the review of the Defendant Local Authority’s adequacy of a reactive system and its duty under the Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957, together with various case updates.
This edition reports on a successful defence of a significant personal injury claim with fundamental dishonesty findings and displacement of Qualified One Way Costs Shifting, together with various case updates.
This edition reports on a claim for damages arising out of a work place accident, bad character evidence in regulatory prosecutions, together with various case updates.
This edition reports on a claim for damages arising out of injuries suffered by the Claimant, who is now an adult, during an incident when he was a pupil, changes to the Personal Injury Damages Claim Portal, together with various case updates.
This edition reports on the importance of good quality contemporaneous evidence and the effective presentation of the same to the Court, Amendments to QOCS, together with various case updates.
This edition reports on the impact that apparatus, which is owned by a third party utility company, has on a defence under Section 58 of the Highways Act 1980, together with various case updates.
This edition reports on Pre-Action Disclosure in personal injury cases in relation to weighing up the rights of third parties when records relating to them are sought by way of disclosure, together with various case updates.