November 2019 Contents
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Personal Injury Articles | |
![]() Chapter Three - Sepsis. This book will give an overview of the medical background, including an overview of signs, symptoms, treatment and outcomes. It will explore the issues on breach and causation that often arise, and will provide practical guidance for practitioners... |
![]() Darren Mendel, Partner at Horwich Farrelly, looks at the case of Hussain v EUI Limited where the issue of hire and profit was thrown into question... |
![]() The Court of Appeal has given clarification as to how Part 36 interacts with CPR 44 and the Court's powers to make orders for interim payments of costs following acceptance of a part 36 offer... |
![]() Chapter Two - Credit Hire Rate Or Basic Hire Rate? It is perhaps helpful to start by stating the general rule again. In Dimond v Lovell,1 after emerging from the thicket of consumer credit issues to address the issue of rates, Lord Hoffmann (with whom Lord Browne-Wilkinson agreed) stated that... |
![]() Aldred v Cham, Court of Appeal, 25 October 2019. Simon Fisher examines the Court of Appeal's finding in Aldred v Cham (2019), that counsel's advice fee in a child claim was not recoverable as a disbursement in addition to the fixed costs, and that translation fees are also irrecoverable... |
![]() In a recent case Master Davison considered whether covert recordings of appointments with medical experts should be admitted as evidence. The recordings were obtained improperly or unfairly but nevertheless had probative value... |
![]() Many PI firms see the potential in employing paralegals and PI firms are often keen to pay for their staff to gain paralegal qualifications or for their paralegals to take CPD courses... |
![]() Here is a summary of the recent notable court cases over the past month... |
![]() Each issue a particular topic is highlighted, citing some of the useful cases and other materials in that area. In this month's practitioner update we bring two useful recent cases to your attention... | |
Medico-Legal Articles, Edited by Dr Hugh Koch | |
![]() This is the twenty-fourth in a series of Case reports and Commentaries from Dr Koch and colleagues... | |
Clinical Negligence Medicine by Dr Mark Burgin | |
![]() Dr. Mark Burgin BM BCh (oxon) MRCGP explains how to manage difficult behaviours in the Joint Expert Conference... |
![]() Dr. Mark Burgin BM BCh (oxon) MRCGP reviews the GMC report on the risks posed to patients by increasingly unwell doctors in the NHS... |