Catastrophic Injury
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Infant pedestrians: can you blame the parents?
In Ellis v Kelly (2018) the court declined to make a finding of contributory negligence against an 8 year old boy involved in a road traffic accident and dismissed the contribution claim against his…
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Successful defence of high value road traffic claim in QOCS environment
DWF has successfully acted for Aviva and their insured in a claim following a road traffic accident on a slip road where the claimant motorcyclist alleged the defendant had been negligent in slowing…
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VR Series #7 Cognitive Brain Training
The jury is still out as to the effectiveness of VR when it comes to Cognitive Brain Training. This article reviews a number of research papers in an effort to draw things together.
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Osseointegration
As regular readers will know I recently had the opportunity to attend Dorset Orthopaedics catastrophic injury conference in Farnborough.
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An unconvincing performance in a plotline full of holes
DWF has successfully obtained a finding of fundamental dishonesty against a claimant who was found to have fabricated the vast majority of a personal injury claim for £850,000 following what was…
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Return of the Jedi
Given the @BIRGarage 's efforts to boldly go where no legal business has gone before I'm sure to have created confusion in my sci-fi metaphors by titling this article 'Return of the Jedi'
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Limitation: More than a hollow provision
In the recent case of Lee v Nationwide Building Society, the Court were asked to consider by way of preliminary issue, whether to grant the Claimant permission to continue with a claim which had been…
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VR Series #1: Virtual Reality Physiotherapy - updated 12.5.18
Following last week's highly successful and interesting 'DWF Catastrophic Injury Conference' [13th March 2018] I thought that I would take the opportunity to begin a series of articles related to…
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VR Series #6 – Phantom Limb Pain [PLP]
Samsung are currently running a Do What You Can’t brand campaign to promote the Samsung Gear and its various uses: one of which is virtual reality… you know the one, inspiring sound track and an…
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Traumatic Brain Injury Increases Risk of Dementia #Updated 04.05.18
A study published in the Lancet Psychiatry on Tuesday 10th April suggested that people who have sustained a TBI have a higher risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer's diseases in later life.
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