April
Articles matching "surveillance"
Covert recordings: reprehensible but relevant and probative
Covert recordings made by the claimant of medico legal examinations were deemed "reprehensible" but "relevant and probative" in the context of a "question mark" raised over the neuropsychological…
Read morePerseverance in chronic pain case results in significant savings
John Lezemore and Adela Carrasco of DWF have recently obtained significant savings on a claim presented as a chronic pain case valued at over £1million.
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Ambushed! Late disclosure of surveillance evidence
In a defendant's application for permission to rely on surveillance evidence heard a month before trial, the court found that the claimant had not been ambushed and the defendant was allowed to rely…
Read moreSurveillance footage: Good days and bad days
In a case where the extent to which the claimant had recovered from injury was in issue, the court concluded that a disparity between his appearance on surveillance footage and his presentation to…
Read moreAdmissibility of surveillance evidence
Earlier this month HHJ Keyser QC sitting at Cardiff County Court allowed the defendant’s appeal for permission to rely on surveillance evidence. In doing so he rejectedan argument that the absence of…
Read moreFresh High Court guidance on surveillance practice and procedure
Last month, in the case of Hayden v Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust, the High Court allowed the defendant to rely on surveillance evidence notwithstanding that it had been served shortly…
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Surveillance evidence guidance for costs budgets & Part 36 costs consequences
Andrew Cousins reviews the recent High Court decision in Purser v Hibbs & Anr (2015) which raises two interesting issues following a discovery of dishonest exaggeration through the use of…
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Covert surveillance: check your grounds
At the end of last year, the Information Commissioner’s Office found that Caerphilly County Borough Council had breached the Data Protection Act 1998 when it ordered the surveillance of an employee…
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