June 2022 Contents
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| Personal Injury Articles | |
 Hill v Ministry of Justice [2022] EWHC 370 (QB) - Rochelle Powell, Temple Garden Chambers The case concerned an appeal against the order of Recorder Bright QC dismissing a claim for personal injury suffered by Mr Hill ("the appellant") in the course of his duties as a probationary prison officer. The appellant was instructed to escort two young offenders when one of the prisoners ("DB") assaulted him, causing the appellant to sustain a spinal injury... |
 Uncertainty In The Law: When Actionable Damage Arises In Mesothelioma Cases - Nicholas Dobbs, Temple Garden Chambers In Brooks v Zurich Insurance, the Claimant had worked as a maintenance engineer at a paper mill in Enfield. His work brought him into contact with asbestos and, around 30 years later in March 2020, he began to suffer from the first symptoms of mesothelioma. He was formally diagnosed in April 2021. When examined in October 2021, his life expectancy was in the range of 6 to 18 months. His wife suffered from dementia and he wished to progress the claim as quickly as possible so that there would be funds available for her on his death... |
 PI Practitioner: Ex Turpi Causa Oritur Actio - Nicholas Dobbs, Temple Garden Chambers In Lewis-Ranwell v G4S Health Services (UK) Ltd & Ors, the First, Third, and Fourth Defendants applied for an order striking out the claim against them on the grounds of illegality, 'ex turpi causa non oritur actio' (out of a dishonourable cause no action arises). The Claimant had killed three men in their homes whilst suffering delusional beliefs about them. He made numerous allegations of negligence against each of the Defendants, in essence arguing that they were... |
 Knowledge of the specific injury or disease? - Jim Hester, Parklane Plowden Chambers Does the specific injury or disease which a claimant sustained need to be reasonably foreseeable for liability to be established? Or is reasonable foreseeability of a risk of any injury or disease sufficient? The date of 'guilty' knowledge is a frequent topic which arises in industrial disease litigation. This is when a defendant ought to have known that a particular form conduct could reasonably foreseeably cause injury... |
| Clinical Negligence Medicine by Dr Mark Burgin | |
 How to Write a CV for an Expert Report - Dr Mark Burgin Dr. Mark Burgin BM BCh (oxon) MRCGP explains what a court is looking for in an expert's CV and how even senior experts can keep their CVs looking fresh. Courts need to be able to see in the medical report why they should consider this expert witness should be seen as an expert in this case. Although anyone can say that they are an expert it is the court that determines whether the practitioner is an expert... |
 Addressing Inconsistencies in PI reports - Dr Mark Burgin Dr. Mark Burgin BM BCh (oxon) MRCGP explains why inconsistencies are a sign of a good personal injury report and the expert's skill is in addressing them. Inconsistencies can arise from an internal error in a report, a mistake by a claimant or a biopsychosocial phenomenon. Errors in the report can occur when the claimant said that they had no previous neck pain and then said that they had whiplash following a previous RTA... |
