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Amending or withdrawing a Part 36 offer

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • November 5 2009

Recent case law has considered the Civil Procedure Rules relating to amending or withdrawing a Part 36 offer

Drink driving and contributory negligence

  • RPC
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 24 2010

Much has been written in the legal press about the relevance of Darren Best v Damion Smyth 2010 EWCA Civ 204 and the court's approach to interim payments

Contrasting decisions for dishonest claimants

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 15 2009

The courts have recently considered two cases involving fraud arising from road traffic accidents

Hadlow v Peterborough City Council (2012)

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 12 2012

Peterborough City Council appealed against a decision awarding the claimant damages for personal injury on the basis that the accident was not reasonably foreseeable

Recent decisions

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 16 2011

The claimant was a 10 year old schoolgirl

Esdale v Dover District Council 2010 EWCA Civ 409

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 24 2010

The test for determining whether or not the Council had taken reasonable steps to see that visitors were safe did not depend upon what standards the Council had set itself

Smith v Finch

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 15 2009

The claimant sustained a serious traumatic brain injury when he was knocked off his pedal bike by a motorcycle

Orchard v Lee

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 15 2009

The claimant was a lunchtime assistant supervisor at a school

Round-up

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2013

The court was asked to assess damages in a claim for personal injury caused by five years of sexual abuse by a grandfather of his granddaughter

Abuse claims a developing area

  • RPC
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2013

Recent news events mean that abuse claims are currently in the public eye. The law in this area is complex with various avenues of redress under both