June 2025 Contents
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| Personal Injury Articles | |
 R (Ayinde) v London Borough of Haringey and Al-Haroun v Qatar National Bank QPSC and Another [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin) - Andrew Ratomski, Temple Garden Chambers The Divisional Court's judgment in these joined contempt cases following a Hamid hearing heard on 23 May 2025 has received wide-spread attention in both the legal press and national media. I want to highlight the unequivocal guidance that the Divisional Court has given as to the use of artificial intelligence by legal professionals and the salutary reminder of the regulatory responsibilities surrounding the use of emerging technologies. |
 JD Wetherspoon Plc v Burger & Risk Solutions BG Ltd [2025] EWHC 1259 (KB) - Philip Matthews, Temple Garden Chambers The Claimant sustained a serious hip injury after being forcefully restrained by two door supervisors outside a JD Wetherspoon (JDW) pub in August 2018. The supervisors were employed by Risk Solutions BG Ltd., which was contracted by JDW to provide security services. The Claimant initially sued both JDW and Risk Solutions for personal injury. However, Risk Solutions failed to participate in the proceedings, and so the case proceeded against JDW alone... |
 Mark Edwards & Ors v 2 Sisters Food Group Limited [2025] EWHC 1312 (KB) - Philip Matthews, Temple Garden Chambers The case concerns an appeal by four former employees of 2 Sisters Food Group Ltd, who alleged that they contracted Covid-19 due to workplace safety failures in June 2020. The Respondent employer sought and obtained summary judgment in its favour, arguing the Claimants had no realistic prospects of success. At the initial hearing, the County Court Judge (HHJ Owens) ruled that the Claimants would not be able to establish a causal link between... |
 David Richardson & Ors v Slater & Gordon UK Limited [2025] EWHC 1220 (SCCO) - Andrew Ratomski, Temple Garden Chambers This judgment concerned a group of 224 claims against solicitors, the Defendant, from which ten test claimants were identified. Senior Costs Judge Rowley was asked to determine nine preliminary issues in respect of conditional fee agreements entered into with the Defendant and the information provided orally and in writing when those agreements were entered into... |
| Clinical Negligence Medicine by Dr Mark Burgin | |
 Criminal Case Review - Dr Mark Burgin Dr Mark Burgin considers how a criminal case should be reviewed to fairly consider if there is material evidence that has not been considered. Any criminal justice system will inevitably put some innocent people in prison. This is not a society problem as long as there is a prompt system of Criminal Case Review to identify those wrongly imprisoned and fairly reconsider their cases. The greater the delay and less efficient the system of Criminal Case Review the more injustice will occur... |
 Safe Use of AI in Legal Proceedings - Dr Mark Burgin Dr Mark Burgin uses Gemini LLM to consider a recent paper considering AI and the UK Judiciary from the point of view of a medical expert with wide experience in AI. Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the legal field has been generally welcomed but Judges have raised concerns. There are a number of reports of lawyers having been caught out citing non existent cases. This suggests that AI use in law is already widespread and largely unregulated either by legal firms or through formal guidance. The judges in this paper have a unique viewpoint and their work is a key step to safe AI use... |
![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)
