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Settlement has been reached on an Admiralty claim destined for a 4-day High Court trial In February. The claim covered all aspects of maritime claims from service in the Cayman Islands to the status of the jack-up oil rig the claimant was…
The Court of Appeal have allowed the Chief Constable’s appeal against the Master’s refusal to strike out the claim against him. The case concerned whether police officers who attended a road traffic accident caused by ice owed a duty of care to…
John Foy QC, Edwin Buckett and Max Melsa have been published in this month’s edition of PI Focus, APIL’s monthly newsletter, regarding amputation claims and claims under the Montreal Convention respectively.
Members of APIL are able to access the articles here:
Following a settlement meeting yesterday, John Foy QC and Edwin Buckett, both representing the Claimant, settled a below the knee amputation case for £3.35m.The Claimant, a pedestrian, sustained a devastating crushing injury to her leg in a road traffic accident which led…
Max Melsa successfully represented the Claimant, who suffered a serious fall when embarking from Bristol Airport. The claim was brought under Article 17 of the Montreal Convention 1999, which applies in cases where injury is sustained either on board an aircraft or…
In SSP Health Ltd v The National Health Service Litigation Authority (Primary Care Appeals Service) and others [2020] EWCA Civ 1574, [2021] P.T.S.R. 958, SSP challenged the lawfulness of a decision by the NHS Resolution adjudicator, Ms Lisa Hughes, to follow usual…
Andrew Ritchie QC spearheads initiative for a new type of comprehensive insurance policy clause. This will provide rehabilitation for people left with life-changing injuries when falling victim to a no blame accident.
As one of the country’s highest profile clinical negligence barristers,…
This week Gurion Taussig successfully defended G4S Legal Department (Alan Cameron, Litigation Lawyer).
Last week JPIL published Sabrina Hartshorn’s Response to the Report of the Justice Select Committee appears to now add a degree of clarity to the question of management costs, investment advice and the recovery of investment advice.
Sabrina’s interpretation of investment…
The MOJ has today published its response to the report of the Justice Select Committee on the setting of the discount rate. The report can be found
