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Detecting Deception in Personal Injury Interviews - Dr Kathy Peace, Frank Beesley & Victoria Byram
09/01/13. Legal, medical and psychological experts involved in interviewing clients regarding personal injury need to determine the veracity of the interviewee’s self-report in order to form accurate diagnoses and assess functional disability and losses. This article provides a brief overview of research findings regarding the detection of deception in human interactions.
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Maximising Personal Injury Damages - Peter E Quegan QVRM TD, Kenworthy’s Chambers
08/01/13. Having spent the previous 19 years as a solicitor, the last 15 of them handling serious injury cases, I realised when I transferred to the Bar, that I had developed my own approach to litigation and had picked up one or two useful tricks over the years. After presenting the subject in lecture form, I was invited to write an article, so picking a few key areas, here goes...
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Compensation Culture: Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill - Rushmi Sethi
07/01/13. An examination of, with reference to the last thirteen years, the causes of the misperception of compensation culture. An overall conclusion is drawn from the review of causes of misperception, after consideration of some of the key factors for compensation culture as an “urban myth”.
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‘Access to Justice’: One Sound Bite Too Many for the Insurance Industry? - Carl Waring, Solicitor
03/01/12. Happy New Year to all our readers – that is unless you are a claimant lawyer or for that matter if you are likely to suffer a relatively minor personal injury this year. “Happy” is not a word that those in the claimant camp will likely be using to describe their state of being this year. No sooner than the government had confirmed that referral fees would definitely be banned as of 1st April 2013, AND that RTA Portal fees were to be slashed by 60% (more than expected) AND that it had decided to increase the portal limit to £25,000 AND that it was going to extend the portal to cover EL and PL cases.... pause for breath for a moment, as that is one hell of a lot of reform to take in all in one go..... ok, on we go....than Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling announced on the 11th December 2012, that a four month consultation was to be launched that very morning (why hang about?) outlining...
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Sun, Sea and Balconing: the Role of the Coroner Following Deaths Abroad - Chris Deacon & Daniel Scognamiglio, Blake Lapthorn
02/01/13. By mid-summer 2012, there had been thirteen recorded incidents involving Brits falling from balconies abroad. Three of those cases resulted in deaths and the others in serious, life changing injuries. The victims will often be male, aged 24-30 and have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs. For resorts like Magaluf on the Spanish island of Majorca 'balconing' has become a concerning phenomenon. The term refers to the act of purposely throwing oneself from a balcony often into the swimming pool below. Some balcony falls are caused by individuals trying to climb from one balcony to the next or from holidaymakers sitting on the edge of the balcony rail or wall...
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