A recent judgment of the Privy Council explores the interplay between two principles on appeal. First, findings of fact are notoriously difficult to appeal...

One of the odd quirks of my practice in the catastrophic injury field is that I have carved out a particular speciality dealing with amputation claims.

This is the third short article in a series focusing on lesser-known case law which may assist in defending claims brought against highways authorities for failing to maintain the highway...

Keen readers may recall a previous article of mine in the April 2021 edition of PI focus titled ‘Life and Limb – tips on running amputation claims'. The present article is very much a follow-up...

Another week, another travel alert. Having advised Brits not to travel to Turkey to undergo cheap cosmetic surgery, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office...

The Dekagram is back! After an all-too-brief Christmas holiday, the travel and cross border team has returned to keep our readers up to date on the activities of the courts and legislature in our field.

On 31st December 2020, the UK-EU transition period ended. This meant that the recast Brussels Convention ceased to apply.

This is the fourth and final article in a short series which focuses on case law which may assist in the defence of claims against Highways Authorities under s.41 of the Highways Act 1980.

We trust our readers enjoyed the Eurovision on Saturday every bit as much as we did; with the Deka Chambers Eurovision Sweepstake Shield up for grabs, there could hardly have been more to play for.

This week the team has been musing on the forthcoming Coronation – as our readers will know, we do love a party. Speaking of which, it's Silks Day, and as a consequence Sarah Prager will be spending...

This week's Dekagram reflects the wide range of legal questions the team deals with as part of international practice. First, Thomas Jones considers a recent case on the protection of...

With news hot off the press on Friday 11th November 2022 that thirty former professional footballer players intend to send a Letter of Claim to the Football Association, The Welsh FA and IFAB alleging negligence that heading of the football has caused dementia and other neurogenerative injuries.

This week we bring you news of two cases considering how and when to claim items of special damage (spoiler: claim them as such, and ideally prior to judgment).

This week we bring you a Dekagram all about costs recoverability, in the contexts of Part 36 and of summary judgment and strike out. The cases on split liability offers just keep coming...

This week's Dekagram examines what happens when rules change: that transitional period between one set of rules and another, when no one is quite sure what's happening.

Following the collapse of Thomas Cook we brought a number of claims under s.75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 against credit card suppliers in relation to the tour operator's alleged breach of contract.

Although the Ogden Tables (8th Edition) were published in July 2020 there is little by way of reported case law regarding the revised (and remarkably helpful) explanatory notes which accompany them.

As we predicted some time ago, medical negligence abroad is continuing to pepper the tabloid headlines and is gaining greater notoriety.

This week's Dekagram examines whether, and when, service of a claim form can be validly effected on an erroneous address; Lucy Lodewyke looks at an unusual case in which service under CPR Part 6.15 was authorised.

Jack Harding examines another decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union expanding the reach of the Montreal Convention, hot on the heels of his previous briefing on the meaning of ‘accident' within the meaning of the Convention.