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Personal Injury Bulletin: Liability - Whiteford v- Kubas UAB (2012) CA (Civ Div) 09.05.2012

  • Eversheds LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 14 2012

A collision arose between the Claimant motorcyclist and a lorry, driven by the Defendant’s employee, on a country lane

Hopps v Mott MacDonald (1) and Ministry of Defence (2)

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 24 2009

The High Court has today handed down judgment in the case of Graham Hopps v (1) Mott MacDonald Ltd and (2) Ministry of Defence (MOD), the first reported case applying s1 of the Compensation Act 2006

Deafness: the new whiplash?

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 2 2012

A recent article in the Financial Times has suggested that deafness claims are "the new whiplash" because of an increasing number of claims

Trouble and strife? Marital status discrimination in modern times

  • Mishcon de Reya
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 18 2012

The idea of employers treating employees less favourably on the grounds of their marital status seems almost an alien concept today

Wilful assault means no contributory fault

  • Morton Fraser
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 1 2011

The number of workplace assaults and resultant criminal prosecutions has been on the increase over recent years, attracting the media spotlight

Lord Young - common sense? “Common sense, common safety” a report by Lord Young of Graffham

  • Kennedys
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 13 2011

Lord Young's Report into health and safety was published on 15 October 2010

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
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  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

Quantifying future loss of earnings: Ward v Allies & Morrison Architects 2012 EWCA Civ 1287

  • 1 Chancery Lane
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 17 2012

At the quantum only trial of a personal injuries matter, HHJ Cleary held that he did not have sufficient evidence pertaining to the claimant’s level of likely future earnings and the likely duration therof

LLP member did not have whistleblowing protection, but could bring a discrimination claim in the UK despite working principally abroad

  • Baker & McKenzie
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 23 2012

The Court of Appeal has held that a member of an LLP will not be a "worker" for the purposes of employment protection legislation provided that, had the LLP been formed as a general partnership, the individual would have been a partner of that partnership. It also found that she had sufficiently close links with the UK to bring a discrimination claim here, despite working principally overseas

Can’t see the wood for the trees?

  • Pannone LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 1 2012

On 23rd September 2012, a leisurely Sunday stroll in Kew Gardens turned to tragedy when Erena Wilson, a 31 old year lady from New Zealand, was struck by a falling branch of a Lebanese cedar tree