T’is the season to be techie ….! 30 December 2015 Simon-Readhead-QC clinical negligence, Damages, LP damages, LP Quantum, personal injury, quantum, Schedules (0) This is the time of year for families …. and for gadgets. Lots of them! In particular, smartphones. An average 65% of children in the UK aged between 8 and 11 now have their own smartphone. This figure rises to 90.5% in Newcastle making it the smartphone capital of the UK for children. This compares with 55.2% in London and only 40% in Brighton and Hove. All this and ... [More]
Top personal injury decisions of the Court of Appeal in 2015 21 December 2015 Ian-Miller case report, clinical negligence, Damages, employers liability, jurisprudence, medical law, personal injury, practice direction, quantum, road traffic accidents, Strike Out, travel, workplace claims (0) The Court of Appeal has made a number of important decisions in 2015 in the field of personal injury. As the year draws to a close, Ella Davis and I review some of the most important of them for the PI practitioner. They cover psychiatric damage, causation, quantum, the Athens Convention, jurisdiction, duties of care, vicarious liability and non-delegable duties... Psychiatric Damage Live... [More]
The English Claimant and the French uninsured tortfeasor: claims against the MIB 02 December 2015 Matthew-Chapman (0) Marshall & Pickard v MIB & Others [2015] EWHC 3421 (QB) These claims arose out of a road traffic accident in the municipality of Thiais, France on 19 August 2012. Mr Pickard, a UK national domiciled in England (now and at the time of the accident), was the driver of a Ford Fiesta. Mr Pickard had a passenger in the Ford Fiesta: another English domiciled UK national, Paul Marshall. While ... [More]