Catastrophic Injury
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Over the past eight months I've been writing and posting articles on LinkedIn as part of my work with DWF's Bodily Injury Research Garage. This is the fourth in a series of articles broadly exploring…
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Equine: Likelihood of damage or severe damage - experience matters
With the transcript of the recent judgment in Lynch v Ed Walker Racing Limited [2017] now available, Amy Jeffs, a member of the Equine Group at DWF LLP, looks at the decision in more detail.
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Discount Rate proposals – certainty and fairness for all?
The decision in February to cut the discount rate to minus 0.75%, after 16 years without a review, plunged the insurance industry and personal injury lawyers into turmoil. This was alleviated slightly…
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Discount rate alert: government announces change to the way the rate is calculated
Following an announcement to the London Stock Exchange this morning the MoJ has now published its response to the discount rate consultation along with draft legislation.
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Ambushed! Late disclosure of surveillance evidence
In a defendant's application for permission to rely on surveillance evidence heard a month before trial, the court found that the claimant had not been ambushed and the defendant was allowed to rely…
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Surveillance footage: Good days and bad days
In a case where the extent to which the claimant had recovered from injury was in issue, the court concluded that a disparity between his appearance on surveillance footage and his presentation to…
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Historic abuse claims: When is late too late?
Paul Donnelly and Samantha Chambers acted on behalf of the Defendant and its insurers in Wilde v Coventry City Council (2017) – a historic abuse claim where HHJ Maloney QC refused to exercise…
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Should there be sequential or simultaneous disclosure in credit hire claims?
Increasingly claimant firms in credit hire claims are seeking to vary standard small claims directions so as to provide for sequential exchange with, disclosure of the Defendant’s basic hire rate…
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Discount rate consultation offers opportunity to achieve certainty and fairness for all
With effect from 20 March, Liz Truss's bombshell announcement made on 27 February has become reality and injury claims for future loss must now be dealt with on a minus 0.75% discount rate. This has…
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Limitation in sexual abuse cases: further Court of Appeal guidance
Mark Fowles considers the recent judgment in JL -v- Archbishop Michael George Bowen and Scout Association [2017] in which the Court of Appeal concluded that the trial judge had been wrong to disapply…
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