March 2025 Contents
 Welcome to the March 2025 issue of PI Brief Update Law Journal. Click the relevant links below to read the articles. CPD Note that there are no new monthly CPD quizzes since the SRA and the BSB have both updated their CPD schemes to eliminate this requirement. Reading PIBULJ articles can still help to meet your CPD needs. For further details see our CPD Information page.
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| Personal Injury Articles | |
 Jinking horses, Animals Act claims and dishonest exaggeration - Andrew Ratomski, Temple Garden Chambers Hazel Boyd v Debbie Hughes [2025] EWHC 435 (KB). Liability, quantum and fundamental dishonesty were in dispute in this claim for personal injury. The Claimant was employed by the Defendant as a rider and stable hand, and fell from a cantering horse sustaining a serious injury to her right arm. The Defendant was a racehorse breeder and trainer based in Tonyrefail in Wales with 35 horses. Unusually the claim was brought under section 2(2) of the Animals Act 1971 ('the 1971 Act') with no claim in negligence and so the issue was one of strict liability under... |
 Child Sexual Abuse Litigation Reforms - Philip Matthews, Temple Garden Chambers The UK Government has announced its intention to implement a number of key recommendations from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA). There is no draft legislation as of yet, however the Government's Responses to Consultation sets out the direction of travel. Most significantly, the first Consultation Response proposes to remove the usual three-year limitation period for filing personal injury claims in the context of... |
 Morris v Williams [2025] EWHC 218 (KB) - Philip Matthews, Temple Garden Chambers In Morris v Williams [2025] EWHC 218 (KB), District Judge Dodsworth considered whether a letter from the Claimant's former solicitor, which contained proposals to settle allegations of fundamental dishonesty, could be adduced as evidence. The Claimant was involved in a road traffic accident in July 2018, when he was injured while riding a motorcycle hit by the Defendant's vehicle. Liability was admitted, but the Defendant contended that the Claimant had exaggerated his injuries and acted dishonestly in presenting... |
 BB and others v Moutaz Al Khayyat and others [2025] EWHC 443 (KB) - Andrew Ratomski, Temple Garden Chambers This decision in long-running litigation between Syrian dissidents and the Doha Bank ('the Bank') and others concerning financial support to conflict groups raised an important point of principle concerning the QOCS regime. By this stage, a group of the claimants in the action had discontinued ('the discontinued Claimants') whereas another group had continued although those claims were later struck out ('the continuing Claimants'). At a costs hearing on consequentials to Soole J's dismissal of an application from the discontinuing Claimants that the presumptive costs rules of 38.6 be disapplied, a live issue emerged as to the Bank's entitlement to an... |
| Clinical Negligence Medicine by Dr Mark Burgin | |
 Where do delusions come from? - Dr Mark Burgin Dr Mark Burgin explains how to recognise that a client may require a disability report to comply with SRA codes of conduct and the Equality Act 2010. Delusions are false beliefs that are firmly held despite evidence to the contrary. They can be a symptom of several mental health conditions, including schizophrenia, delusional disorder and bipolar disorder. However, many people hold delusional type beliefs without mental illness. Understanding where these beliefs come from may help explain why... |
 Why is Primary Care 100 times more Effective than Hospitals? - Dr Mark Burgin Dr Mark Burgin challenges assumptions and explains why prevention is better than cure and health anxiety is creating an ill health industry. The mathematics is simple enough , one in ten patient contacts is with hospitals each day and they use 9 out of 10 of the pounds put into the health service. GPs see ten times more patients for a tenth of the budget. Times ten by ten and you reach one hundred in the cost per consultation difference between GPs and consultants. |
![Appeal judge rules that credit hire company has no costs liability following a finding of fundamental dishonesty in personal injury case: RSA v. Fastrack Solutions Limited [2023] 4 WLUK 92 - David Bowden, Erimus Chambers](/content/images/resized/images/stories/carkeys_72_72.jpg)
