by Russell Worth | Feb 21, 2014 | News, Personal Injury
A dispute between four local authorities over which of them must fund the lifelong care of a severely disabled young man has yielded authoritative guidance from the Court of Appeal on the vexed issue of exactly what constitutes a person’s ‘ordinary residence’....
by Russell Worth | Feb 17, 2014 | Accident Claims, News, Personal Injury
In a case which succinctly encapsulated the current state of the law on the vicarious liability of employers, an innocent customer received serious head injuries after he was savagely attacked by a petrol kiosk attendant on a supermarket forecourt has received the...
by Russell Worth | Feb 14, 2014 | News, Personal Injury
A tree surgeon who was terribly injured in a 50-foot fall from a dying conker tree has received a judge’s ‘enormous sympathy’ – but has failed in a multi-million-pound compensation claim against the National Trust. The young man was left permanently confined to...
by Russell Worth | Feb 10, 2014 | Industrial Disease, News
Tinnitus is a condition which as many as one in ten people in the UK. Many people live with a mild form of tinnitus either from work or from a build-up of wax in their ears and do not treat their tinnitus because the symptoms of hissing and ringing in their ears are...
by Russell Worth | Feb 6, 2014 | Medical Negligence, News
A decision by the High Court has seen it rule that an NHS Trust which admitted full liability for a mother’s tragic death in childbirth is not obliged to pay compensation to her severely disabled son. In an ‘unmitigated catastrophe’ that unfolded at Cumbria’s...
by Russell Worth | Jan 9, 2014 | Cosmetic Surgery, News
Cosmetic surgery documentary Botched Up Bodies returns to Channel 5 tonight. The fascinating programme, which began its second series run in August 2013, will tonight look at the cases of three more people who underwent cosmetic surgery in the hope of transforming...
