We Fight Any Claim In 2007 we came across 2 brothers who were abandoned by a law firm in the northwest of England. The law firm in question had purchased the case from a Claims Management Company operating in the west of London. The accident circumstances were that the 2 brothers were on a shopping trip [...]

The Pre-Action Protocol for Personal Injury Claims is essentially the mechanism that ensures that your personal injury solictors are able to bring your claim to a quick and satisfactory conclusion. The Protocol was first put forward by Lord Woolfe in July 1996 through his access to justice report and this was to ensure full disclouser [...]

ROBIN EDWARD LAWRENCE v GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL (2012) EWHC 464 (Admin) ~ BD (Admin) (Stadlen J) 02/03/2012 The appellant psychiatrist (L) appealed against certain procedural decisions and factual findings of the Fitness to Practise Panel of the respondent General Medical Council. The Panel had made findings of misconduct by L, in respect of a patient [...]

BEN WOODHAM v JM TURNER (T/A TURNERS OF GREAT BARTON) (2011) [2011] EWHC 1588 (QB) ~ QBD (Kenneth Parker J) 21/06/2011 A coach driver was 70 per cent liable for personal injuries sustained by a motorcyclist following a road traffic accident at a junction as, considering the coach driver’s obstructed view of oncoming traffic, she [...]

Comments :– A police informer can not escape from consequences his illegal action. There is a duty of care owed to a police informer, but  the police can not be liable for pure financial loss AN INFORMER v CHIEF CONSTABLE (2012) [2012] EWCA Civ 197 CA (Civ Div) (Pill LJ, Arden LJ, Toulson LJ) 29/02/2012 The appellant [...]

Comments; This is how it should and ought to be. Many of my opponents blow hot and cold about late disclosure. But there is a fundamental premise that a trial judge should have all the available evidence to enable him/her to reach just and fair decision. GRUPO HOTELERO URVASCO SA v CAREY VALUE ADDED SL [...]

 FORRESTER KETLEY & CO v DAVID BRENT (2012), In KETLEY the Court of Appeal held  that a judge had been entitled to find that a defendant who had failed to comply with a mandatory order to vacate his property was in contempt of court, and to have imposed a suspended sentence. The defendant’s attempt to issue [...]

  The appellant coach company (T) appealed against a decision of the lower court (to the Court of Appeal) it was 70 per cent liable for a road traffic accident in which the respondent motorcyclist (W) was injured. The driver (X) of one of T’s coaches had been driving along a minor road and stopped at [...]

(1) PETULA FITZPATRICK (2) BRUCE WILKEY (3) THOMAS, BOYD & WHITE (A FIRM) v COMMISSIONER OF POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS (2012) QBD (Admin) (Globe J) 11/1/2012 The first and second claimant solicitors (F and W) claimed damages for assault, battery and false imprisonment from the defendant police force, and a declaration that their human rights [...]

 AMP v PERSONS UNKNOWN (2011) An individual was granted an anonymity order under CPR r.39.2(4) and an interim injunction to prevent transmission, storage and indexing of photographic images taken from her mobile phone and uploaded to a website as BitTorrent files. She had a reasonable expectation of privacy in relation to those images capable of [...]