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The debate about who is the best person to do a medical report in personal injury or medico-legal matters is one that seems to run and run.  Obviously as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon who treats general orthopaedic trauma but also has a sub-specialist interest in shoulder and elbow problems I am likely to be somewhat… Continue reading Why use a consultant and not a GP for a medical report?

Bizarrely, in a recent case that we dealt with, the answer seems to be that if the accident occurs after the Claimant has refuelled with petrol, what is clearly a slipping accident can be treated in law as an accident that arises out of the use of a motor vehicle. The facts of the case… Continue reading Wide Lines – when is a slip/trip an RTA?

Or not as the case is regularly proving to be! Precedent H should come with a cautionary warning it is difficult to use and contains fundamental errors which make it almost useless:

In the case of Ian Kershaw v (1) Marion Roberts (2) James Gerard Jones [2014] EWHC 1037 (Ch) containing a Part 8 claim, the Claimant’s contended that a “directions hearing” was the first CMC and as the Defendant’s served their costs budget late, it should be restricted to court fees only. By way of a… Continue reading Costs Management in Part 8 Claims

Sir Rupert Jackson used the anniversary of his eponymous reforms to declare ‘Litigation is a process, not an Eleusinian.’ Some quickly scrabbled for Wikipedia and others shook their head in wonderment at whether Sir Rupert inhabited the same world, let alone the same century, as those working under his new regime.