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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...
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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...
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Personal Injury
04/06/2020

How about a trip in the park?

In Barlow v Wigan MBC [2020] EWCA Civ 696 the CA has decided that a footpath in a public park constructed and belonging to the Council since the 1930s was a highway maintainable at public expense. The Claimant had tripped over tree root along the...
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Personal Injury
26/05/2020

Aldred -v- Cham : End of the road but not the end of the matter

Permission to appeal to the Supreme Court denied by Lords Hodge, Briggs and Leggatt on the basis that the application did not give rise to a point of law of general public importance. Earlier this year, the Court of Appeal was asked to consider...
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Personal Injury
14/05/2020

PPE: a consideration of civil liabilities

Lorna Badham, a barrister specialising in Personal Injury and Employment law at St Philips Chambers, provides a legal perspective on this headline-dominating topic.  Have we ever talked so much about PPE?  Each breakfast bulletin features...
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