If your taxi driver is negligent and you are injured, you expect to be compensated. If a surgeon is negligent and your child is damaged for life, you are part of a blame culture. This is the first of a
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Whiplash – Concerning Doris and a nasty motor accident – what a difference a week makes!
Sunday 30th May 2021 Bill and Doris are driving their Ford Fiesta along the Formby By-Pass on their way to Lady Rose nursery. This is part of their Sunday, after church, routine. They will potter around the gardens and then
Reflecting on a year of Zoom – back to life, back to reality…
Excessive force by police – you ain’t seen nothing yet…
Rutnam rakes in bumper pay day from Priti Patel
My first guest blog post! Thoughts on the Philip Rutnam settlement from my friend and Employment Law Expert, Steve Pinder of Stephen Pinder – Employment Law Matters Philip Rutnam resigned from his role as the senior civil servant in
Whiplash reforms, who benefits? Answers on a postcard!!
Very few readers will need me to tell them that the so-called reforms of whiplash claims will come into force from 31st May 2021 and that relevant rules were published on 25th February 2021. This is the culmination of government
Stansted 15 – A prosecution that should never have been brought
In 2019 I was at the Greenbelt Festival near Kettering, a small festival that focusses on faith, arts, music and activism. I was drawn to a session featuring the case of the Stansted 15 at which the speaker was
Reviewing without due care and attention
I used to be a fan of review sites. I would rarely book a holiday without first checking what previous users had to say about it. I began to have my doubts when we had a particularly unpleasant short stay
Are Tipp-Ex amendments worse than fraud?
I was on holiday last week! I just wanted to get that particular gloat out of the way. In the few days that I have been back we have again seen two very contrasting outcomes for lawyers who have
Do these attacks suggest something sinister?
I have to confess that I have been ranting past myself this week. But not without cause. The ill-informed attacks on the legal profession are hardly likely to reduce the strain on my laptop keyboard, to say nothing of