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Funding: costs orders against claimants’ solicitors

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 10 2013

Court of Appeal holds that funding of disbursements did not render Claimants’ solicitors liable to pay Defendants’ costs; disclosure ordered to allow

RTA: child car seat

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 8 2013

Court of Appeal upholds decision that mother must contribute 25 per cent to claim; booster seat was used for three year old when child seat was

Highways authorities: inspections of roads

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 8 2013

Court of Appeal upholds finding that highways authority liable for accident involving defective road but subject to 50 per cent contributory

Ministry of Justice - Damages Act 1996: the Discount Rate - review of the legal framework

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 7 2013

The basic principle for any award for compensation in a personal injury claim is to try to put the Claimant in the same position he would have been

Public liability: school training expedition

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 1 2013

Court of Appeal confirms school was not liable following the death of a pupil during an adventure training exercise

Public liability: paddling pool accident

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 18 2013

Kennedys successfully defends claim brought following a party for a group of school friends; parent hosting party was not liable for catastrophic

Set discount rate on what claimants actually do with their money

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 17 2013

From the other side it was argued, however, that to attack the current approach to setting the rate is to attack the principle that injured people

Counter fraud: Jackson’s collateral damage?

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 11 2013

Recent figures released by the ABI tell us that insurers successfully identified £1 billion worth of fraudulent claims in 2011

Secondary victims: right to recover damages

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 28 2013

Court of Appeal holds that Claimant who witnessed mother’s death three weeks after accident at work could not recover damages. Defendants and insurers

Major procedural reforms and an increase to the County Court limit in Northern Ireland

  • Kennedys
  • -
  • Ireland, United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 22 2013

The County Courts (Financial Limits) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 came into effect on 25 February 2013. This increased the jurisdiction of the