04 Dec 2018
Seddon v Bolton Council Manchester CC The claimant alleged that she fell in a pothole and sustained serious personal injuries. She brought a claim for personal injury against the local authority. At trial, the claimant described that she was walking back from the local off licence. As…
04 Dec 2018
Guildford CC - Judgment of District Judge Bell The facts The claimant had attended a farm attraction for children. She had been playing with her 2-year-old son in the undercover soft play area when they left the area to go the toilets. As she walking along the corridor, she slipped. She…
04 Dec 2018
Logistics Company Fined for Failure to Adapt Generic Risk Assessment Tuffnells Parcels Express Ltd has been fined after a lorry driver was fatally crushed against his vehicle by a trailer as he was attempting to couple it. The vehicle was loaded with parcels and parked on a 3° slope at a…
04 Dec 2018
Annual statistics released by the HSE have revealed that in 2017/18, 1.4 million workers suffered from work-related ill health and around 555,000 from non-fatal injuries. According to key figures in 2017/18 there were: · 144 fatal injuries at work · 1.4 million working…
04 Dec 2018
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Co Ltd v (1) Kamar Abbas Khan (2) Shafiq Sultan (3) Asef Zafar (4) Mohammed Shazad Ahmed (2018)[2018] EWHC 2581 (QB) QBD (Garnham J) 05/10/2018 A claimant personal injury lawyer and a medical expert have been found to have committed multiple civil contempts. The…
04 Dec 2018
Surrey County Council v Hilliard (2018) QBD (Slade J) 16/10/2018 Surrey County Council successfully appealed a district judge's decision that it was in breach of section 41 of the Highways Act 1980 after a cyclist was injured in a closed road race. The facts The claimant had taken…
01 Nov 2018
Allen v Cycle Route Ltd t/a Override Skate Park In 2015 the claimant attended a skate park owned by the defendant accompanied by a guardian. The 11-year-old claimant was scooting along the street section of the park, consisting of a drop down ramp to a flat bank which included a grind rail, when he…
01 Nov 2018
Construction Company and Director Prosecuted for Dangerous Building Site A construction company was fined and its managing director ordered to carry out 150 community service after HSE Inspectors found dangerous conditions at its building site. According to the HSE, inspectors had visited the…
01 Nov 2018
Clive Bellman (A protected party by his litigation friend, Susan Thomas) v Northampton Recruitment Ltd (2018)[2018] EWCA Civ 2214 The Court of Appeal has held a company vicariously liable for an assault committed by its managing director on an employee after a Christmas party. In 2010 the…
01 Nov 2018
Peter John Sebastian Murray v Martin Devenish (on his own behalf & as representative of all other members of the unincorporated association known as The Sons of the Sacred Heart of Jesus) (2018)[2018] EWHC 1895 (QB) QBD (Nicol J) 24/07/2018 The claimant alleged that he had been sexually abused…
04 Dec 2018
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