PIBULJ
No Smoke Without Fire: Fire Service Liability - Andrew Roy, 12 King's Bench Walk
13/08/13. Wembridge and 14 others v (1) Winter (2) East Sussex Fire Service and another [2013] EWHC 2331 (QB). These claims arose out of a mass explosion which occurred at a fireworks factory at Marlie Farm in East Sussex on 3 December 2006...
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Legionnaires’ Disease, Is There a Claim? - Kirsty Clifton, Ascot Lawyers
12/08/13. Headache, muscle pain, high fever, chest pain, a persistent cough, breathing difficulties, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, nausea and vomiting.... this may sound like a nasty bout of the flu, however these same symptoms could also arise from contraction of Legionnaire’s Disease.
Legionnaires’ disease is so named after 182 delegates fell ill with pneumonia at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in July 1976, of which 28 people died. The cause of the outbreak was identified a couple of years later as being a previously unknown strain of bacteria which was subsequently named ‘Legionella’ and the particular strain which caused the outbreak was named Legionella pneumophila
Legionnaires’ disease returned to the public spotlight in 2012 due to...
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What Exactly Are Defective Thought Processes? - Bill Braithwaite QC, Head of Exchange Chambers
11/08/13. This is another post about mental capacity, but it’s more of a question. When we consider whether an injured person has mental capacity, ie the ability to manage his or her own affairs, we are interested in their thought processes, not simply the decisions they make. In fact, it is clear that making bad decisions does not necessarily prove that someone lacks capacity.
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Jackson in Action: the 1st April Reforms Begin to Take Effect - Shirley Denyer, Shirley Denyer LLP & Knowledge Services Consultant for FOIL
10/08/13. Four months in from the introduction of the new rules both claimant and defendant lawyers are getting used to the new regime and attention is turning to how the new rules work in practice. Even without the changes introduced by the new RTA and EL/PL protocols and portal, there is much to get used to: case and costs management; the new test of proportionality; the various transitional arrangements; DBAs; new rules on Part 36; and QOCS...
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Under-Settlement: First VWF Scheme Professional Negligence Case Reported - Ivor Collett, 1 Chancery Lane
08/08/13. Former miners who had worked for British Coal were offered a tariff-based government compensation scheme from 1999 if they could show they had developed symptoms of vibration white finger (VWF – now more commonly referred to as hand arm vibration syndrome or HAVS). The scheme was the result of extensive negotiations between ex-miners’ representatives (principally claimant solicitors’ firms) and the DTI, which took over responsibility for British Coal’s liabilities.
However, the first of many professional negligence claims by disgruntled claimants against the solicitors’ firms who acted for them has just been reported...
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More Articles...
- Why I'm Not in Sympathy With the Whiplash Debate - Bill Braithwaite QC, Head of Exchange Chambers
- The Length of Judgments and the Cost of Litigation - Thomas Crockett, 1 Chancery Lane
- Decoding the Statutory Defence - Mark Fowles, Browne Jacobson LLP
- RTA Post Jackson, How to Deal With Them 3 Months on: What Have We Learned? - Andrew Mckie, Clerksroom
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