April
Articles matching "motor"
The benefit of making admissions
The CPR and the various Pre-Action Protocols encourage parties to make concessions where they can and to reach agreement where possible. The rewards of making a partial admission are brought into…
Read moreTransport Select Committee to produce further report
Speaking today at the Liverpool Law Society Personal Injury and Civil Litigation Conference, Louise Ellman, the TCS chair confirmed that the committee would produce a further report on whiplash in the…
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Court finds pedestrian 85% responsible for road accident
Catherine Hart examines this case in which the Court of Session considered the apportionment of blame in an action for damages brought by a pedestrian against a bus driver. While accepting that there…
Read moreThe CMA sets out its proposals
Back in December last year the Competition Commission published its provisional findings, following its investigation into the private motor insurance market. The provisional decision on remedies as…
Read moreWhat next for the whiplash reforms?
The last 12 months have been a busy time for personal injury lawyers, but it is clear from the Justice Secretary’s recent announcement that reform in this area is still very much at the top of the…
Read moreCMA - Private Motor Insurance Market Investigation
The Competition and Markets Authority will provide its provisional decision on remedies tomorrow.
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Key changes ahead on fraudulent injury claims
It’s not usually on a Saturday that Government makes an announcement of another potentially significant reform affecting the handling of all types of injury claims, but that’s what took place this…
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The search for reform in fraud goes on
Yesterday’s announcement that the Law Commission would not recommend to the Lord Chancellor that “Fraud by victims of personal injury” should be a project for inclusion in the 12th Programme of Law…
Read more“Fundamental dishonesty” – what it might mean
The Qualified One-Way Costs Shifting regime was introduced in personal injury cases on 1st April 2013, but ahead of its introduction many people expressed concern that offering claimants the…
Read moreThe use of expert evidence in fraud cases - an emerging trend?
Since the implementation of the Jackson Reforms and certainly since Mitchell, the Courts have adopted a stricter approach to following the CPR. Is that stricter approach now beginning to inform the…
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