The background to the case involved a claim for personal injury arising out of a work place accident in which the Claimant injured his foot.
A Claimant enters into a Conditional Fee Agreement (CFA) with solicitors before 1st April 2013, but then replaces the original CFA with a new agreement.
On 11 July 2017 we wrote about an argument being deployed in the County Court to the effect that QOCS does not apply to claims under ECRAIR 2002.
In claims for psychiatric injury, the distinction between primary and secondary victims is well established.
The Court of Appeal has roundly rejected the suggestion that a distinct cause of action should be recognised in cases where a patient's personal autonomy has been wrongfully invaded due to the failure to obtain informed consent.
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