Don’t clinical negligence claimants take forever to get damages?!
According to the High Court “No not always” is the answer to this question! The High Court in LP (by her litigation friend) v Wye...
The Importance of Mental Health Checks Prior to Cosmetic Surgery...
A BBC report this weekend highlighted the welcome news that Superdrug is to introduce tougher mental health check prior to performing cosmetic procedures on individuals...
Gerard Sanders
Partner, Personal Injury & Clinical NegligenceHas the demise of Legal Aid put justice out of...
Medical negligence (or clinical negligence as it's known) can be utterly devastating, not just for the victim, but for the family too. At a time...
Mark Wisby
Associate, Clinical NegligenceFixed recoverable costs in clinical negligence cases
After many months of debate, the government is aiming to cap the costs which lawyers recover in clinical negligence cases. The current indication is that...
Gerard Sanders
Partner, Personal Injury & Clinical NegligenceStacking the Deck – Again! Further cost obstacles for claimants
In June this year my blog “Justice for All?” looked at how changes to the costs rules since April 2013 had benefitted Defendants at the...
Isabel Bathurst
Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical NegligenceHart Brown secures a six-figure settlement in clinical negligence case.
The court has now approved the settlement on a long running case in our specialist clinical negligence team involving a number of highly experienced specialists....
Isabel Bathurst
Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical NegligenceBereavement damages incompatible with ECHR
The Court of Appeal has recently recognised that cohabitees as well as married couples (widow/widower) and civil partners have a right to bereavement damages (Smith...
Isabel Bathurst
Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical NegligenceRadical reform of costs in clinical negligence cases…well not quite,...
Lord Justice Jackson has just published his report on fixed recoverable costs (FRC) and it is anticipated that at some stage in future FRC will...
Isabel Bathurst
Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical NegligenceShock horror! Justice for claimants after all
Congratulations to the Lord Chancellor, Elizabeth Truss, for (a) doing the right thing and (b) for leaving many claimants’ lawyers stunned. Today (27.02.17), the Lord...
Isabel Bathurst
Associate, Personal Injury and Clinical NegligencePlaying Games with Peoples’ Lives
Is it any wonder that many people view statements by politicians with scepticism? “Say one thing and do the other” syndrome is alive and well...