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Record personal injury damage award
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- December 7 2012
Allianz, the defendant insurers in Collier v A Norton, were ordered to pay a lump sum of £7.25 million in addition to annual payments of £270,000 to 17-year-old pupil of Cheltenham Ladies College, Agnes Collier
Recent cases and other news
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- September 19 2012
This personal injury claim gave the Court of Appeal the opportunity to set guidelines on the measure of general damages
“Sufficient cause” for resuming inquest
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- June 8 2012
In the recent case of R (on the application of Medihani) v HM Coroner for Inner South District of Greater London, the issue of whether a Coroner should resume an inquest following criminal proceedings was considered
Guidance on the test for mental capacity
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- May 3 2012
In Joanne Dunhill (by her litigation friend Paul Tasker) v Shaun Bergin (2012) EWCA Civ 397 the Court of Appeal confirmed that, when determining whether a previous compromise agreement to settle a personal injury claim could be set aside for want of capacity, the proper question was not whether the claimant had capacity to enter into that compromise, but whether she had capacity to litigate in the first place
High Court rules coroner should not preside over reinquest on grounds of bias
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- April 14 2010
The recent case of R (on the application of Carol Pounder) v HM Coroner for North and South Districts of Durham & Darlington (2010) explored the circumstances when a Coroner would have to recuse himself from presiding over a fresh inquest
Challenge to detention under Mental Capacity Act 2005 fails
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- United Kingdom
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- January 11 2010
The appellant, who suffered from vascular dementia and Korsakoff’s syndrome, argued that his detention by the Trust under a standard order of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 amounted to a deprivation of his liberty
Challenge to Coroner’s verdict fails
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- United Kingdom
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- January 11 2010
This case involved a challenge to the verdict of HM Coroner for Portsmouth and South East Hampshire who, on 13 November 2008, held an inquest touching the death of Russell Anthony Neal Jenkins
Inquests and coronial news
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- December 3 2009
The recent case of Dowler v HM Coroner for North London 2009 provides an example of where the courts are prepared to quash a coronial decision and order a new inquest to be held before a different Coroner
Inquests and coronial news
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- November 30 2009
Recent helpful case law (R (Farah v HM Coroner for the Southampton and New Forest District of Hampshire) 2009 clarified that a coroner’s comments, made as part of a judgment and in addition to a verdict, can be unlawful in certain limited circumstances
Doctor found guilty of attempting to induce miscarriage in pregnant lover
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- United Kingdom
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- November 30 2009
On 19 October 2009, a jury in the Old Bailey found that Dr Edward Erin twice tried to induce a miscarriage in his pregnant lover, Bella Price
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- Author - Clare Jaycock