Asbestosis is a terrible disease that blights thousands of lives and is, perhaps, made all the worse by the fact that it can take decades to develop. In a High Court case on point, an 81-year-old retired carpenter won the right to compensation more than 40 years after he was exposed to asbestos dust at work. The pensioner said that […]
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Companies within the same group frequently have almost identical names, but that does not detract from their independent legal personalities. As a High Court case concerning an offshore helicopter crash showed, that fundamental principle constitutes a trap into which the unwary persistently fall. The helicopter’s passengers and crew lost their lives after it fell into the sea whilst on its
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Not all disabilities are obvious to the casual observer but their impact on day-to-day lives can nevertheless be devastating. In a case on point, a woman who suffered damage to the frontal lobe of her brain in a road traffic accident received seven-figure compensation. The woman suffered a closed head injury when a speeding driver collided with her vehicle. After
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Deciding where blame lies for road accidents is one of the more anxious tasks faced by judges, particularly if the victim is a child. That was certainly so in the case of a 13-year-old boy who was catastrophically injured by a reckless driver who was on the run from the police. The driver, who had an extensive criminal record, leapt
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A woman whose hopes of bearing children were stymied by medical staff’s failure to detect early signs of cervical cancer has won the right to substantial damages – including the reasonable cost of funding commercial surrogacy arrangements in California. The Supreme Court’s ruling on the case recognised a fundamental shift in the law’s idea of what constitutes a family and
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