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Strike out of claim against solicitor

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 14 2007

A claim by a client against his solicitor was struck out where the underlying libel claim was time-barred and the claimant had no real prospect of establishing that any breach by his solicitor had caused him loss (Al-Ruby v Quist Solicitors

Mental health, right to life and gross negligence

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 29 2007

On 21 December 2006, Swift J heard a defendant NHS Trust’s successful application for summary judgment

LAD’s

  • Fenwick Elliott Solicitors
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 1 2008

This was a claim for professional negligence against loss adjusters in relation to the reinstatement of an old farmhouse

Interim orders - a necessary evil?

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 10 2007

Over the last few years more and more professional regulatory bodies have developed disciplinary schemes which include the right to take action against a respondent professional before there has been any formal adjudication on the facts of a particular case

Periodical payments and indexation

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 1 2007

Following Mrs Justice Swift’s judgment in Thompstone v Tameside & Glossop Acute Services NHS Trust, there have been three further High Court judgments on indexation

Michael Harvard v North Bristol NHS Trust

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 14 2009

The Claimant attended the Defendant hospital complaining of acute chest pain and was diagnosed as suffering from myocardial infarction

X v London Strategic Health Authority

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 14 2009

Claimant aged 22 years at settlement, underwent appendectomy at Defendant hospital when 4 years old

H v Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 14 2009

Claimant was referred to Defendant’s orthopaedic clinic with suspected Achilles tendon rupture

S v West Midlands South Strategic Health Authority & others

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 14 2009

In 1983, the Claimant attended the Defendant hospital at age 15 after inhaling a piece of plastic

The importance of Bolam

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 30 2007

On 27 April 2007, a patient, Ms Smith, successfully appealed against the judgment of a High Court dismissing her claim for medical negligence