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2016 IN PERSONAL INJURY: A YEAR IN BLOG POSTS | Zenith PI: PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION IN PRACTICE
Throughout 2016 the Zenith Personal Injury Team have been busy blogging about the latest news in PI and civil procedure. Here, as the first “review of the year” are all the posts topic by topic.
This has been (as always) an interest year in relation to procedure.
Vilma Vodanivic considered what happens where Same Accident, Same Defendant, Two Separate CNFS (One Claiming Vehicle Damage And Credit Hire; The Other PI) Proceed As Separate Claims at All Times, One Settles After Issue, the Other Does Not And Is Issued – Abuse Of Process Or Not? (March 2016)
Helen Rutherford talked us through the 83rd Amendment to the CPR (March 2016)
Mark Henley explained the rules surrounding Statements of Truth, Translation and Witnesses with Poor English (March 2016)
Colin Richmond considered the case of Phillips -v- Willis [2016] EWCA Civ 401 in which the Court of Appeal held that Credit Hire Charges Remain in Protocol – Stage 3 Procedure Appropriate – Not appropriate to reallocate to Part 7 (April 2016)
Don’t Assume You Can Serve The Solicitors! Elliot Kay tells us why it’s not always safe to make assumptions about service (April 2016)
John Collins looked at the issues that can arise where a Scottish claimant claims for personal injuries against defedants with registered offices in England and Wales in Over The Border (May 2016)
Jonathan Holsgrove considered the negative effects of litigants in person in To Recuse Or Not? – Ghadami -v- Bloomfield and Others [2016] EWHC 1448 (CH) (June 2016)
Nicola Phillipson explained When Allegations of Fraud Are Not Enough in an application to set aside default judgment (June 2016)
Bronia Hartley considered Unless Orders and Relief From Sanctions (July 2016)
Elliot Kay considered the practice of Excluding A Party From Court in Fraudulent Claims (July 2016)
Colin Richmond look at the effect of a new Part 36 offer in Are You Still Open? – Can A Part 36 Offer Extinguish An Earlier Offer? (July 2016)
Joanna Hastie gave A Reminder to All About the Importance and Extent of Pleadings (July 2016)
Mark Henley considered Conflicts of Interest In Road Traffic Claims: Drivers and Passengers (August 2016)
Jonathan Holsgrove talked us through trial bundles in Trial Bundles Can Make You Sick – Top Tips For a Compliant Bundle (September 2016)
Elliot Kay highlighted the risks in amending proceedings late in the day in Late Amendments to Proceedings – Proceed with Caution (November 2016)
Jonathan Holsgrove looked at Repeat Claimants – Res Judicata and Issue Estoppel (November 2016)
Bronia Hartley looked again at Unless Orders and Relief From Sanctions (November 2016)
Mark Henley considered Conflicts of Interest in Road Traffic Claims: Litigation Friends (November 2016)
Peter Yates looked at Application for Permission to Bring Contempt Proceedings: A Useful Illustration (Aviva Insurance Ltd -v- Randive) (December 2016)
POSTS ON LIABILITY
Justin Crossley discussed the liability of the MIB to uninsured drivers in Ex Turpi Causa and the MIB (January 2016)
Gordon Exall explained the importance of risk assessments in accident at work claims in The Employer’s Duty: The Supreme Court States the Importance of Risk Assessments (February 2016)
Frances Lawley discussed the ongoing war between credit hire companies and insurers in Further Shots Fired In The Long-Running Battle Between Credit Hire Companies and Insurers (February 2016)
Jonathan Holsgrove looked at The Defective Premises Act in Is An Absent Bannister Disrepair? – the Defective Premises Act Considered (March 2016)
Chris Rafferty explained that The Law of Vicarious Liability Is On The Move…And Hasn’t Finished Moving Yet (March 2016)
John Collins considered the liability of child pedestrians in The Child In The Road Part 2 (March 2016)
If You’re Going to Go Down a Steep Slope, Make Sure You Do It On Your Bottom! Vilma Vodanovic considered Occupiers’ Liability and what constitutes an “obvious danger” (May 2016)
Kate McKinlay looked at the Court’s of Appeal’s decision in Scott -v- Gavigan [2016] EWCA Civ 544 in Inebriated Pedestrians: A Fresh View on Foreseeability and Novus Actus Interveniens (June 2016)
Maxine Best advised Caution When Seeking a Finding of Fraud in RTA Claims (July 2016)
Elliot Kay looked again at vicarious liability of employers in Vicarious Liability Considered by the Court of Appeal – Fletcher -v- Chancery Lane Supplies Ltd [2016] (October 2016)
Bronia Hartley talked us through occupiers’ liability in Occupiers’ Liability Illustrated: Christopher Edwards -v- London Borough of Sutton [2016] EWCA Civ 1005 (October 2016)
Joanna Hastie explained that a claimant injured in the course of intentional criminal action is not entitled to recover damages in her review of Beaumont & Anor -v- Ferrer [2016] EWCA Civ 768 (October 2016)
Colin Richmond looked at “material contribution” in asbestosis cases in Material Contribution – Carder -v- University of Exeter (October 2016)
Frances Lawley considered the relationship between tutor and adult student in cases of dangerous activities in Cycling Proficiency: Asif Ahmed -v- Leon Maclean [2016] EWHC 2798 (November 2016)
Catherine Duffy looked at occupiers’ liability in Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 – Another Blow For Claimants – Mill’s Test Reinforced (November 2016)
John Collins considered the relevance of Health and Safety breaches following the commencement of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 in Real Questions? (November 2016)
Vilma Vodanovic looked at the vicarious liability of employers in A Christmas Works Party Gone Wrong – Vicarious Liability Or Not? (December 2016)
Justin Crossley considered The Duty The Police Owe to the Police (December 2016)
POSTS ON DAMAGES
Gordon Exall considered the judgment of the Court of Appeal relating multipliers in fatal accident claims in Knauer: Supreme Court Allows Appeal: Multiplier Runs From Date of Trial (February 2016)
Bronia Hartley considered the Court of Appeal decision in Summers -v- Bundy [2016] EWCA Civ 126 in No Discretion to Disallow Simmons -v- Castle Uplift (March 2016)
Colin Richmond talked us through the Whiplash and Soft Tissue Quantum Update (April 2016)
John Collins considered the position when a settlement has been agreed and it then comes to light that the claim is fraudulent in Fraud – Several Bites of the Cherry (September 2016)
Vilma Vodanovic considered the applicable law for the assessment of damages where an accident occurs abroad and the driver is uninsured in Accident Abroad But Claim Commenced Here Against MIB – Damages Are To Be Assessed In Accordance With The Law of the State Where Accident Occurred (September 2016)
Gordon Exall explained that Fatal Accident Bereavement Damages Do Not Extend to Cohabitee: A High Court Decision Made With Some Reluctance (September 2016)
Gordon Exall summed up recent fatal accident dependency cases in Fatal Accident Dependency and Cultural Expectations: The Reported Cases (September 2016)
Maxine Best gave us a round up of key credit hire cases over 2016 in Credit Hire: A Round Up (October 2016)
Maxine Best looked at Car Hire and Mitigation of Loss: An Intervention Success Story: Powell -v- Palani (November 2016)
Gordon Exall explained that A Dependent’s Loss of Earnings Cannot Be Claimed in Fatal Accident Claims (November 2016)
Kate McKinlay talked us through the essential issue of capacity in Practice Note on ‘Capacity’ (February 2016)
POSTS ON COSTS
Nicola Phillipson considered whether A 95% Liability Offer Can Be A Valid Part 36 following the judgment in Jockey Club Racecourse -v- Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd [2016] EWHC 167 (TCC) (February 2016)
Andrew Wilson looked at Jackson’s proposals to widen the fixed costs regime in You’re Gonna Need A Bigger Boat – Jackson Proposes Fixed Costs For All Civil Claims Up To £250,000 (February 2016)
Ruwena Khan considered the effects of a Part 36 offer in fixed costs cases in Part 36 Trumps Fixed Costs (And No Donald In Sight): Broadhurst and Taylor -v- Tan and Smith [2016] EWCA Civ 94 (March 2016)
Maxine Best considered the effects of fundamental dishonesty on QOCS in An Approach to Fundamental Dishonesty In The Claimant’s Absence (April 2016)
John Collins warned of the dangers of advising clients on limited aspects of a case in Advising the Client (May 2016)
Justin Crossley looked at Increasing Costs Budget – What Constitutes “Significant Development” (May 2016)
Helen Rutherford looked at what happens when Judge Expressing Opinion On Proportionality of Incurred Costs at the CMC (June 2016)
Colin Richmond considered Has the Claimant Beaten Its Part 36 Offer? Perhaps Not As Simple As It Looks (July 2016)
Frances Lawley looked at An Expensive Mistake: Defendant to Discontinued Action Sanctioned In Costs For Failure To Comply With The Pre-Action Protocol (August 2016)
Chris Rafferty considered costs where there has been a finding of fundamental dishonesty in The Fight Against Fraud – Success or Failure? (September 2016)
Ruwena Khan answered the question Can litigants in person escape the rules relating to cots budgeting in all claims? in Litigants In Person and Costs Budgeting: Campbell -v- Campbell [2016] EWHC 2237 (Ch) (September 2016)
Colin Richmond looked at the relationship between cost budgeting and costs assessment in Budgeting v Assessment – Merrix -v- Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (October 2016)
Helen Rutherford looked at The Cost of Litigation to the NHS (October 2016)
Kate McKinlay celebrated the case of Qadar -v- Esure [2016] EWCA Civ 1109 – No Fixed Costs When Cases Leave the Portal (November 2016)
Colin Richmond explained that A Disposal Hearing is a “Trial” for the Purposes of Fixed Costs – Bird -v- Acorn (November 2016)
Bronia Hartley looked at Costs Budgets in Costs Budgets: Phases Can’t Be Combined Where There is an Overspend In One But An Underspend In Another (December 2016)
POSTS ON EVIDENCE
Colin Richmond explained the importance of establishing “need” in credit hire cases in Credit Hire – Defendant Entitled to Summary Judgment When Claimant Could Not Establish Need (April 2016)
Peter Yates looked at the principles to be applied to ambushes and surveillance evidence in Surveillance Skulduggery? (November 2016)
Sabrina Hartshorn considered The Importance of An Independent Expert (November 2016)
Catherine Duffy looked at Clinical Negligence Appeals – Findings Must Be Justified On the Evidence (December 2016)
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