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Negligence and other torts: personal injury, clinical and medical negligence, product liability, occupiers' liability, defamation and privacy, and nuisance.
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These were two detailed assessment proceedings in the Senior Courts Costs Office concerning the fees charged by Medical Reporting Organisations ("MROs"). In JXX, a protected party suing through his litigation friend ABB, the…
The claimant, Coventry & Warwickshire Development Partnership LLP, engaged the defendant, Avison Young (UK) Limited, from January 2020 to January 2023 to act as NEC project manager and NEC supervisor on its development works at…
The claimants, Teh Hong Eng Investments Holding Limited and Meridian Investment Group Pte Limited, brought a high value Commercial Court claim against Kropz plc, Cominco Resources Limited and Mr Michael John Nunn arising out of…
The claimants, Degroma Trading Inc. and Neriman Associates S.A., are Turkish SPVs whose only business concerned two vessels, the "Diamond-T" and the "Ruby-T". In December 2022 they entered sale-and-leaseback financing with…
The claimant, KDS, is a 26-year-old man who was injured in a road traffic accident on the M6 motorway on 19 November 2022. The head-on collision killed the daughter of the claimant's partner and the defendant driver also died…
The claimants are individuals and communities from the Bille and Ogale areas of the Niger Delta. They allege that between 2011 and 2013 crude oil spilled from pipelines, wellheads and associated infrastructure operated by the…
ABC claims damages arising out of her placement at Huntercombe Hospital in Maidenhead, a privately run psychiatric facility owned and operated by the first defendant, Huntercombe (no.12) Limited. She alleges that during a four…
The claimant, JBX, suing by his mother and litigation friend DBX, was born on 2 June 2009 and suffered from asthma from early childhood, which was poorly controlled by December 2017. In the early hours of 4 January 2018 his…
Mr Robert Ebert, a British citizen then living and working in Hong Kong, was driving a Ferrari 458 Spider on 9 June 2015 when he lost control of the vehicle, which left the road and struck a security guard, Mr Ku Lap-Chi, who…
The claimant, Mark Grogan, described himself as addicted to gambling, having lost around £250,000 on online gaming platforms before 2018, including £256,000 with bet365 over 16 months from August 2011. In May 2018 he opened a…
The claimant, anonymised as TWG, was born in June 1958 and between 1966 and 1969 was a member of the First Midsomer Norton Scout Group in Somerset, operated by The Scout Association. Leroy Grubb, some seven years older than the…
Mr Matthew Shaw was involved in a road traffic accident on 30 June 2018, the alleged tortfeasor being Ms Gillian Wilde, whose motor insurer was Advantage Insurance. Mr Shaw issued proceedings and judgment was entered after a…
The three appellants, C1, C2 and C3, had brought personal injury claims following road traffic accidents, all of them represented by Ersan Solicitors. A group of insurers, suspecting that a large number of such claims were…
The claimant, Bernadette Rogers, sued her brother, the defendant Andrew Wills, in his capacity as executor of the estate of their late mother Ursula Wills — known within the family as Sheila — to recover £135,000 in contract and…
Aeden Balwah, now 24, has cerebral palsy. His mother and next friend Shelly-Ann Balwah brought proceedings in the High Court of Trinidad and Tobago in May 2013 against a private hospital, Surgi-Med Clinic Co Ltd, the obstetrician…
The claimants are approximately 1,000 former rugby players from both codes, rugby union and rugby league, women and men, many of whom played at the pinnacle of their sport. They allege that collision forces sustained during…
Angela Ritchie is the widow of Brian Ritchie, who underwent mitral and tricuspid heart valve repair at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust's hospital on 12 March 2015 and is believed to have contracted Mycobacterium Chimaera…
The appellant, Transport for London, constructed a section of stepped cycle track (SCT) on Farringdon Road forming part of 'Cycle Superhighway 6'. The track sat between the pavement and the carriageway, separated from the…
The claimant, Mr Ndifreke Bassey, was a pedestrian struck down by a car driven by the first defendant, Mr Shanardo Travis Whittaker. His injuries were so serious that he is now a protected person lacking capacity to conduct…
The First Claimant, born in Ghana in 1965, came to the United Kingdom in 1999 with her husband, the Second Claimant, who had arrived as a doctoral student in 1998. In 2011 the Secretary of State for the Home Department decided…