UK motor insurance policies cover the driver, not the vehicle, and disputes can arise if multiple insurers bear potential liability following an accident. In resolving one such disagreement, the High Court gave guidance that will provide invaluable in resolving many others in the future. The case concerned an accident in which a car left the…
A 16 year old boy whose mother died after a piece of plastic tubing was left inside her following a hear operation will at least receive a financial start in life after his Lawyers negotiated a £50,000 settlement of his unique Clinical Negligence claim. The mother suffered from a congenital heart defect and had gone…
Awards of compensation in some of the most serious clinical negligence cases can appear very large to the uninitiated. However, as one High Court case showed multi-million-pound pay outs are readily explained by the galloping costs of professional care and ever increasing life expectancies. The case concerned a nine-year-old girl who developed severe jaundice soon…
Despite any number of cautionary tales appearing in the press and elsewhere, many unmarried cohabitees unwisely persist in buying properties together without taking legal advice. In one case, a woman found out the hard way how difficult it can be to prove your rights if your name is not on the title deeds. The woman…
When an operation goes seriously wrong and a personal injury claim is made, the issue of ‘informed consent’ can be critical. Whenever an operation is performed, consent must be given, because all surgery does carry some clinical risk. Clearly, such consent must be given on an informed basis: weighing up the risks and potential benefits…
The wording of even widely used insurance policies is often not as neat and elegant as it should be and that is why judges are so frequently called upon to resolve issues of interpretation. One example concerned a medical company’s multi-million-pound claim on its insurers in respect of more than 700 unnecessary, inappropriate and negligent…
As any lawyer will tell you, the consequences of lying under oath in court can be very serious indeed. In one case, an accountant who forged his dead mother’s will in an attempt to get his hands on her stake in the family’s £160 million business had his reputation ruined and was sentenced to 12…
In an extremely rare wrongful birth case, a woman who would have terminated her pregnancy had she been aware that her son would be born gravely disabled has won a record £9 million in compensation from a negligent GP. The woman was aware that haemophilia ran in her family and had attended her local surgery…
Nobody wants to be a Scrooge at Christmas but as an employer, you need to be aware of the risk of unpleasant incidents occurring and take preventative steps beforehand. Your employees may not be aware or understand that whether the party takes place on the work premises or off site, it is considered to be…
Facts of the case: Eva Carneiro was Chelsea Football club’s first team doctor, after being promoted at the start of the 2011-12 season, from working with the team’s reserves. Carneiro then left the club after being removed from first team duties last summer. This was following Mourinho’s alleged rude outburst of ‘filho da puta’ in…
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