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Admissibility 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…
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The top 10 priorities for the new Cabinet
Following a turbulent couple of months, MPs and Members of the new Cabinet have returned to their constituencies, after Parliament rose this week for Summer Recess. Nigel Teasdale looks at 10 key…
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Offside! Claimants caught in the net in suspected criminal conspiracy
Five accidents involving 31 suspected fraudulent claims and occurring within 9 days of each other, were part of a suspected widescale criminal conspiracy to defraud RSA. The accidents were said to…
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Court of Appeal considers foreseeability in pedestrian road traffic accident case
Jamie Azim, Senior Solicitor in DWF's London office and Niall MacLean of 12 King’s Bench Walk acted for the defendant and his motor insurers, Markerstudy, in a case that recently came before the Court…
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Assessing and addressing the impact of Vnuk
On 8 June 2016 the European Commission published a ‘Roadmap’ document reviewing the ruling in Vnuk and raising a number of possible adaptions to the scope of Directive 2009/103/EC on motor insurance…
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Fresh 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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Hanging on the telephone
A Defendant successfully defeated a personal claim in which the Claimant had categorically stated in a telephone call that he had not been injured, only for him then to bring a claim for personal…
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Section 57 applies in liability dispute case due to fundamental dishonesty
A claimant who would have recovered 25% of his claim for damages following a road accident, had his claim dismissed under Section 57 of the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 due to his fundamental…
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Jackson reiterates that proportionality and costs are just as relevant to the MOJ Portal and Small Claims Track
A credit hire claim brought in the Portal, should have been resolved by way of a Stage 3 hearing and not transferred to the Small Claims Track the Court of Appeal have ruled in an appeal before them…
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Claimant who treated statements of truth with contempt gains no advantage
A claimant who brought a late notified personal injury claim and who treated the signing of statements of truth “with impunity and in fact contempt”, had his claim dismissed and was ordered to pay the…
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