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  • gp-negligence
  • hospital-negligence

Khan V Meadows: Duty Of Care Revisited By The Supreme Court

Last week, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in Khan v Meadows [2021] UKSC 21 which re-examined the scope of duty of care in clinical negligence cases. Background In…

June 30, 2021

Ailsa McNeil

Opinion
  • professional-negligence

Limitation In Solicitors’ Negligence – Narrowly Avoiding Liability

To successfully bring a claim against a solicitor you have to prove that they owed you a duty of care which was breached causing you foreseeable loss. What is limitation…

June 29, 2021

Chun Wong

Opinion
  • falsely-accused-of-crime
  • supreme-court

Director Of Public Prosecutions V Ziegler And Others [2021] – An Overview

The Supreme Court have delivered their judgment in the case of Ziegler today. This is one of the most significant cases in relation to protest cases for some years, and…

June 25, 2021

Raj Chada

Blog
  • personal-injury

What Are My Options If My Injury Wasn’t Caused By Negligence?

Almost everyone has been hurt while using a particular product, whether they were bruised or burned and in many cases people assume it was just an accident. While this may…

June 22, 2021

Araba Quartey

Opinion
  • property-disputes

Eviction Ban On Firms In Rent Arrears Is Extended By Nine Months

Extension of ban on landlord’s evicting tenant companies A ban on landlords evicting companies for unpaid commercial rent is to be extended for another 9 months. The ban, which stopped…

June 18, 2021
Opinion

The “Breathing Space” Proposal- A Breath Of Fresh Air?

Due to the Covid-19 lockdown, there have been numerous changes to the possession process over the past year. Just recently our colleague, Suzanne Bird, wrote about the end of the…

June 18, 2021

Declan Storrar

Opinion
  • brain-injury

Brain Injury Caused By Football

I love football. I always have. From watching my four brothers playing it, (wishing I was included) to supporting my own daughter playing it at grassroots level. The start of…

June 17, 2021

Anne Sanders

Opinion
  • air-pollution

Clean Air – A Human Right Not A Commodity

When I initially read that businesses were successfully selling bottled clean air, I thought it implausible. Yet, given the devastating effects of air pollution on our health, maybe it is…

June 17, 2021

Ruth Waters-Falk

Opinion
  • road-traffic-accident

Hodge Jones & Allen support Brake’s Kids Walk campaign

Every 20 minutes someone is killed or seriously injured on UK roads. The statistics of road casualties in the UK do not make easy reading and as personal injury lawyers,…

June 16, 2021
Opinion
  • Covid-19

Is Long Covid a Disability?

According to recent figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), an estimated 1 million people in private households in the UK reported experiencing “long Covid” in the four weeks…

June 16, 2021
Blog
  • assaults

Common Assault, Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm And Grievous Bodily Harm – What Is The Difference And What Should I Know?

What is an assault? ‘Assault’ is a generic criminal term used to cover a wide range of offences. However, two offences both deemed ‘assaults’ could be at polar ends in…

June 15, 2021
Blog
  • divorce

What To Expect From Divorce Court?

Taking the decision to end a marriage and get a divorce is not easy. You may be dealing with a range of emotions, all while trying to grasp how divorce…

June 15, 2021
Blog
  • general-crime
  • representation

The STOP & SEARCH Statistics And What You Need To Know If Stopped

In a Government report published in February 2021 it confirmed that between April 2019 and March 2020 there were 563,837 stop and searches in England and Wales (the statistics for…

June 10, 2021

Kerry Spence

Opinion
  • mediation-and-arbitration

The Parents Promise

A few weeks ago, a documentary on Channel 4 highlighted the significant problems facing a number of separated families at this time: children caught in the middle of an acrimonious…

June 10, 2021
Opinion
  • brain-injury
  • road-traffic-accident

Benefits of Speech And Language Therapy (SLT) Following a Brain Injury

I have been working on behalf of a Claimant who sustained a minor brain injury following a road traffic accident when he was under the age of 3. The incident…

June 10, 2021

Karen Mann

Blog
  • restrictive-covenants

Removing Old Restrictive Covenants From Deeds And Conveyances

Deeds or conveyances to a property or land may contain restrictive covenants which impact what the owner can do. The owner could incur the expense of seeking planning and building…

June 9, 2021
Blog
  • wills-disputes

The Law on Testamentary Capacity After Clitheroe v Bond (2021)

A Will can be challenged and set aside if it can be shown that the deceased lacked ‘testamentary capacity’. Banks v Goodfellow (1870) The relevant legal test for establishing (testamentary)…

June 9, 2021

Chun Wong

Blog
  • financial-provision

Child Maintenance – What Is It & What Should I Pay/Receive?

What is child maintenance? When parents separate, the parent with whom the child does not live for the majority of the time is required to provide financial support towards the…

June 8, 2021
Blog
  • eviction

Eviction Ban ended on 31 May 2021

While most of the country is relieved at the gradual return to normal life after the pandemic, a less welcome return is that of court bailiff evictions for renters, reinstated…

June 2, 2021
Opinion
  • hospital-negligence

How can the NHS safely clear the surgical backlog?

It is reported that around 5 million people are now waiting for routine operations and procedures in England. Nearly 388,000 people have been waiting more than a year for non-urgent…

June 2, 2021
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