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Beware of the "eggshell personality"

Edward Cleary reviews the judgment of Mrs Justice Farbey in Morrow v Shrewsbury Rugby Union Football…
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Ian Ford -v- The Firm of W & A S Bruce [2020] SCKIR 9

Saamir provides commentary on the recent case of Ian Ford -v- The Firm of W & A S Bruce [2020] SCKIR…
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The Prescription (Scotland) Act 2018

The Prescription (Scotland) Act 2018 received Royal Assent on 18 December 2018. On its unanimous pas…
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Court of Appeal upholds strike out of deafness claim following failure to restore dissolved company to the Register

Patrick McBrien acted for the defendant and its insurers in Cowley v LW Carlisle Company Limited whe…
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Freebies for friends? Burgess v Lejonvarn revisited – Indemnity costs

The Court of Appeal allowed a defendant to recover costs on the indemnity basis in circumstances whe…
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Strategy & Procedure

The release of the Claims Portal data for May and the Government'…
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Catastrophic Injury

The latest High Court decision on fundamental dishonesty is inter…
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Professional Indemnity

In Hanbury & Ors v Hugh James [2019] EWHC 1074 (QB), the defendan…
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Motor

Amy Jeffs and Charlie Mahoney consider the Court of Appeal's judg…
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Fraud

DWF working with Allianz Insurance has succeeded in obtaining a f…
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Disease

After a turbulent few years in the disease claims market, charact…
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Liability

Earlier this month the Court of Appeal handed down judgment in Be…
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Commercial Insurance

Between 1930 and 2016, anyone looking to make a claim against a d…
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Costs

The Court of Appeal has today handed down judgment in Herbert v H…
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Local Authority

Paul Donnelly and David Weir consider the implications of the dec…
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Scotland

A consultation was launched this month along with a draft Member'…
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Strategic updates

Reforms watch and analysis of portal data & civil justice statistics

As Covid-19 spreads concern amongst the legal and insurance sectors, the latest portal data and civil justice statistics show a slightly downward trend in claims numbers, which is likely to accelerate rapidly

After the February hiatus, Claims Portal Co have released the latest Portal statistics showing a dow…
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Reforms Update – Delay finally announced, with the added bonus of some outstanding policy decisions as well

Today we have finally had confirmation from the Lord Chancellor that the reforms are being delayed t…
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December portal data analysis, reforms update, and case law/legislation watch

Portal Data annual RTA trend shows static numbers around 700,000 per annum, whilst no news could be bad news on the whiplash reforms with no rules or regulations yet published - and 10 weeks to go until the April implementation date...

The Claims Portal data for December 2019 has now been released and whilst the numbers for December a…
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Portal data for November 2019 and Civil Justice data continue downward trend. Election landslide for the Conservatives means the question is "when" not "if" for the whiplash reforms

The Claims Portal data for November 2019 has now been released, along with the Civil Justice data fo…
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Review of latest portal data, reforms & new Judicial College Guidelines

New Judicial College Guidelines have been published as we await the Election outcome to see how the Civil Liability Act will progress, whilst Portal Data released for October 2019 displays an upturn in numbers.

The Claims Portal data for October 2019 has now been released, with increases in RTA and EL new clai…
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Strategic updates

As Covid-19 spreads concern amongst the legal and insurance sectors, the latest portal data and civil justice statistics show a slightly downward trend in claims numbers, which is likely to accelerate rapidly

Portal Data annual RTA trend shows static numbers around 700,000 per annum, whilst no news could be bad news on the whiplash reforms with no rules or regulations yet published - and 10 weeks to go until the April implementation date...

New Judicial College Guidelines have been published as we await the Election outcome to see how the Civil Liability Act will progress, whilst Portal Data released for October 2019 displays an upturn in numbers.