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Running Child Head Injury Claims - Victoria Walne, Anthony Gold Solicitors
23/01/13. Each year an estimated one million people attend Accident and Emergency following a head injury. The two age groups at highest risk of sustaining a traumatic head injury are children aged 0 to 4 and between 15 and 19 years old.
There is no “one size fits all” when it comes to head injury, but children in particular tend to have more complicated symptomatology than adults. One reason for this is that the injury occurs in a child when their development is not yet complete. After trauma, the child’s brain has to try to develop in the context of already being damaged.
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Miners’ Knee Litigation - Andrew Kinnier, Henderson Chambers
22/01/13. On 25th October 2012 the Court of Appeal (Mummery LJ, Hallet LJ and Tomlinson LJ) handed down judgment in the Miners’ Knee Litigation (MKL) limitation appeal. Following the Supreme Court’s decision in the Atomic Veterans Litigation (“AVL”), the MKL decision is the latest judgment by the appellate courts relating to limitation in the context of group actions. MKL concerned working conditions in coal-mines in England, Wales and Scotland between 1954 and 1994. Following the making of a...
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The Costs Management Revolution: Achieving Proportionality? - John Ludman, TCPRichings Law Costs Consultants
21/01/13. There can be no doubt that the forthcoming rule changes concerning Costs Management represent a truly revolutionary change in the way that the costs of litigation are to be dealt with. As from April 2013, costs are to be actively managed by the Court as cases proceed, as opposed to the present system, whereby the quantum of costs is determined primarily by way of Detailed Assessment, once the Court has determined which party is to pay for the costs in question. The idea of Costs Management was, of course, central to Sir Rupert Jackson’s Review of Civil Litigation Costs, whose recommendations are largely adopted in the new rules.
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Personal Injury Litigation Funding Options - Susan Dearden, Wragge & Co LLP
20/01/13. Out: The ability to recover success fees in conditional fee agreements and premiums for after the event insurance. In: A limit on the level of the success fee that personal injury claimants will have to pay; an increase in non-pecuniary general damages; qualified one-way costs shifting; damages-based agreements (otherwise known as contingency fees).
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Sporting Injuries: Civil Liability and Consent - James Braund, Trethowans Solicitors
19/01/13. As a nation with sport at its very core it is perhaps unsurprising that more and more people injured during sporting activities are seeking legal redress in the Civil Courts. However despite this the pursuit of personal injury claims by competitors injured whilst taking part in organised sport remains an interesting concept in law, given their choice to participate in such sport.
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