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Personal Injury
04/06/2021

Individuals and the court process: Proposed changes to CPR 45 in light of recent amendments to the overriding objective

A specialist personal injury barrister discusses proposed amendments to CPR 45, in the context of the recent update pertaining to vulnerable witnesses.  Such changes not only take greater account of individual differences, but also put to bed long...

Sofia Ashraf
Personal Injury
13/05/2021

Part 36 Offers : Children and Protected Parties Wormald -v- Ahmed [2021] EWHC 973 (QB)

In claims concerning a child or a protected party, acceptance of a Part 36 offer is subject to the approval process under Part 21. Consequently, the accepted Part 36 offer is not deemed binding until the court approves the same. What would happen if...

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Personal Injury
14/04/2021

St Philips Chambers are delighted to announce that Sarah Platts has joined their Personal Injury Team as a tenant

Sarah is an experienced County Court advocate who now specialises in personal injury having enjoyed a varied common law background in her previous career to date. With a mixed claimant and defendant practice Sarah is looking forward to further...

St Philips Chambers reception
Personal Injury
29/07/2020

The Irish High Court awards €87,238 for psychiatric injury to a witness of a fatal road traffic accident

Mr Justice David Keane on 3rd April 2020 found that despite the fact that the deceased driver was the tortfeasor of a road traffic collision, he owed a stranger to the scene a duty of care not to cause her a reasonably foreseeable injury in the form...

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Personal Injury
09/07/2020

Elaine Robinson v Department for Work and Pensions

[2020] EWCA Civ 859, 2020 WL 03643325 Ms Robinson, an experienced administrator at the DWP’s debt management department, suffered from blurred vision amounting to a disability. Her disability caused her to suffer migraines when using a computer,...

Sofia Ashraf
Personal Injury
30/06/2020

Rushbrooke -v- HM Coroner for West London [2020] EWHC 1612 (Admin)

Sofia Ashraf was instructed by Sarah Huntbach and Sasha Hibbitt of Anthony Collins Solicitors on behalf of Ms Rushbrooke to advise and to draft the application to quash the original inquest in a complex, multi-issue matter involving a deceased who...

Colin Baran
Personal Injury
16/06/2020

Of Causation and Coronavirus – Are Covid-19 Injury Claims Likely to Succeed?

As the world gradually gets back to work, there can be little doubt that the employer’s duty to provide for their employees a safe system of work, safe workplace and protective equipment must now include a requirement to risk assess and to take...

St Philips Chambers Atrium
Personal Injury
08/06/2020

Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust [2020] EWHC 1415 (QB): A glimmer of hope for secondary victims?

The law relating to secondary victims, who suffer psychiatric injury as a result of witnessing a shocking event, has long been an area of contention. Since the seminal case of Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police [1992] AC 310 and the...