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Claimant Claimant's history Has the claimant previously pursued personal injury claims? This can be verified via the Claims Underwriting Exchange (CUE) database, which records all claims that have been lodged with an insurer. Nature of the injuries Do the reported injuries align with, and are they proportionate to, the overall seriousness of the collision event? High occupancy A crowded vehicle (ie several passengers) does not, by itself, prove fraud, yet it may still be relevant where an accident is alleged to have been engineered or staged. No reason to stop Where the defendant maintains the claimant’s car braked without cause, this may potentially point to a set-up incident. Late reported claim Although claimants ordinarily have three full years to bring a claim, when a claim reaches an insurer more than six months after the accident date, without any credible reason at all (eg a prolonged hospital stay, or the claimant’s insurer struggled to identify the defendant’s insurer), there is a...

Achieving a meaningful induction Most organisations operate a regimented yet, to be candid, shallow onboarding for new hires. Largely, HR procedures dictate it, ticking off essential policy requirements — security, health and safety, and internal control frameworks. Beyond that, the general counsel (GC) ought to make sure you’re introduced to pivotal people across your team and the wider company in a considered, organised manner. Still, much of this serves more to alert colleagues that someone has arrived than to genuinely support the newcomer. In essence, the process often prioritises protocol and optics over substance and genuine support for the new hire initially. The task, therefore, is to turn the induction window into something valuable. It’s an opportunity the new joiner should shape proactively to serve their interests early on...

This Checklist This Checklist helps pinpoint typical recoverable historic financial outgoings and losses (special damages or historic pecuniary losses) arising before trial. It also aids in collating suitable evidence and highlights the questions that commonly emerge when valuing these losses, setting out recurring issues for consideration as appropriate in practice. For additional guidance, see: Past expenses and losses—overview...

Motor Insurers Bureau v Houston [2025] EWHC 3178 (KB) What are the practical implications of this case? Although the outcome may catch seasoned credit hire practitioners off guard, it was driven in large part by the precise language of the debarring order in this case. The order confined any future debarring strictly to the question of rate and made no reference to reliance on impecuniosity for the hire period or for any wider purposes; appellant counsel on appeal suggested this flowed from a legacy version of a standard form. Practitioners familiar with credit hire litigation will know that, more often than not, directions orders bar a claimant from reliance on impecuniosity for all purposes following a failure to provide financial disclosure. Even so, the judgment is a clear reminder that the courts will apply the ordinary and natural meaning to the words of any order, and practitioners should take care to verify the exact wording of a debarring order in every case. That is not, however, to suggest the...

PI & Clinical Negligence weekly highlights—15 February 2024 In this issue: Road traffic accidents Clinical negligence Costs Court and the legal profession Other PI and clinical negligence news Daily and weekly news alerts Useful information New Q&As Road traffic accidents Pure economic loss and remoteness In Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Company Ltd [2024] UKSC 6, the Supreme Court held that a bailee’s possessory interest in goods is sufficient to found a claim against a third party whose negligence damages those goods. The appeal succeeded: a car-hirer was entitled to sue the negligent third party in tort to recover the contractual daily loss-of-use sum owed to the vehicle owner (the bailor, hire company) arising from the damage. The court also issued succinct guidance on core principles governing negligence claims for harm to tangible property, and on the limits of remoteness. Further, the Supreme Court confirmed that once a claimant has shown that...

Justice Stephen Males in the Court of Appeal held that the claim that Marsh failed to secure appropriate motor insurance for vehicles hired overseas by Norman Hay plc staff and group companies could not be summarily rejected. The judgment observes: for a court to assess whether a breach of duty caused loss, it must be told what, specifically, the defendant ought to have done. Males J indicated that further detail is required about the brief given to Marsh, the obligations it assumed, and whether a competent broker in Marsh’s position should have offered different advice on the availability of non-owned motor cover. Norman Hay contends that Marsh, whether negligently or in breach of contract, failed to appreciate that the chemical group’s senior employees needed adequate liability insurance when travelling on business abroad...

The Skilled Worker route The Skilled Worker route allows UK employers holding a valid sponsor licence to hire, or continue to employ, skilled individuals who are neither British nor Irish nationals. It is the principal route for entry to, and residence in, the UK for employment. The Practice Note: Sponsoring a Skilled Worker reviews the eligibility requirements connected to a sponsor issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS), including the necessary skill level and salary. Once a CoS has been issued, and provided the applicant meets all other criteria, they can apply for entry clearance or permission to stay...

PI & Clinical negligence horizon scanner—July 2025 [Archived] ARCHIVED: This Practice Note is archived and is not maintained. It summarises the principal legal developments relevant to personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners as at July 2025. For developments predating this horizon scanner, see PI and Clinical Negligence horizon scanning and key cases—overview. Key PI and clinical negligence developments The personal injury discount rate—a review In late 2024, the Lord Chancellor, Shabana Mahmood MP, revealed the outcome of her five‑month review of the discount rate, initiated in July 2024. One month after the new +0.5% discount rate took effect, Thea Wilson (barrister at 12 King’s Bench Walk) assesses its impact on cases, the responses from claimant and defendant representatives, and the consequences of the change for legal practitioners. See News Analysis: The personal injury discount rate—a review. MoJ announces reduction in CFO’s interest rates The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has announced lower interest rates for the Courts Funds Office’s (CFO) special and basic accounts...

The outcome of an administration will frequently hinge on the worth of the company’s assets and the administrator’s capacity to handle those assets freely so as to secure the best possible result for creditors as a whole. The administrator is granted extensive powers to deal with property, including assets encumbered by various forms of security and quasi-security (for example, hire purchase or retention of title arrangements). A key advantage of administration is the protection created by the moratorium against enforcement by creditors, which permits the administrator to proceed without the constraints the company may have experienced before administration. The administrator may intend to sell or otherwise deploy charged property in order to meet one of the purposes of the administration, while, by contrast, a creditor may wish to enforce its security and recover what it is entitled to from a company it regards as at risk. These competing requirements need to be held in balance between administrator and creditor...

In the COUNTY COURT AT [ insert ] OR in the High Court of Justice [ Specify division ] [ Insert location ] District Registry Claim No: Between [ Insert name ] Claimant and [ Insert name ] First Defendant Second Defendant Particulars of claim At all material times, the Claimant was employed as a [ insert job title eg Delivery Driver ] by [ insert employer’s name eg Plant Hire Limited ]. Whilst performing [ his OR her ] duties on [ insert date of accident ], [ he OR she ] was tasked with delivering a power float (‘the float’) to the First Defendant’s premises at [ insert address ]. On the Claimant’s arrival at the premises, the First Defendant informed the Claimant that he planned to remove the float from the lorry using a JCB. The First Defendant further stated that various people on site would assist with this unloading process...

L&D costs Costs associated with Source of cost £ In-house courses delivered by employees Trainers’ time to plan sessions Trainers’ time to deliver Trainers’ time for post-course review In-house courses delivered by external providers (face-to-face on-site or virtual) Delivery charges Preparation costs Travel and subsistence Post-course evaluation and feedback Courses held off-site Venue hire Day delegate rates (refreshments and meals included) Equipment hire (data projectors, flipcharts, etc.) Delegates’ travel Presenters’ travel Accommodation Parking Employee costs Employees’ time attending the course Employees’ time completing any pre-course work Material costs Workbooks and handouts Stationery and other consumables Training aids, games or equipment ...

Stop press: The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Commencement No 6 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2026, SI 2026/82, commence the outstanding sections and bring into operation the remaining provisions of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (DUAA 2025). Measures on subject access requests, legitimate interests, purpose limitation, automated decision-making, international transfers and enforcement take effect from 5 February 2026, while those concerning penalty notices and complaints apply from 19 June 2026. For further detail, refer to Practice Note: Data (Use and Access) Act 2025—employment implications. This Precedent will be revised shortly to reflect these developments...

If a business claims to hire and remunerate an individual with a wage to reduce the tax burden of the business itself or a director/shareholder, while the individual in reality undertakes no work and supplies no services, this would appear to constitute tax evasion. Where a solicitor knows this is happening, they should adhere to the procedures prescribed in the firm’s policy on preventing the facilitation of tax evasion in such circumstances...

Such works may fall under section 105(1)(b) of the HGCRA 1996 Such works may fall within section 105(1)(b), which treats road maintenance as a construction operation covering the construction, alteration, repair, maintenance, extension, demolition or dismantling of works forming, or to form, part of land, including walls, roadworks, power lines, electronic communications apparatus, runways, docks, harbours, railways, inland waterways, pipelines, reservoirs, water mains, wells, sewers, industrial plant, and installations for land drainage, coast protection or defence. Alternatively, section 105(1)(e) catches operations integral to, preparatory for, or rendering complete those works, including site clearance, earth-moving, excavation, tunnelling, laying foundations, erecting, maintaining or dismantling scaffolding, site restoration, landscaping, and providing roadways and other access. No specific authority concerns these works, yet courts have often held that less orthodox activities are construction operations, for example: Baldwins Industrial Services plc v Barr: crane with driver hire held integral, preparatory to, or completing works under sections 105(1)(a) and (e). Some contracts are excluded from being a ‘construction...

We assumed for the purposes of this Q&A there exists in place an arrangement creating a contractual link between the initial equipment supplier and the finance company as lessor; for example, a tripartite agreement among the supplier, lessor and lessee, or a contract between the finance company lessor and the original supplier for the purchase of the equipment before the lessor leases it on to the lessee. We also proceed currently on the basis that no particular industry or sector rules apply to any such arrangement between lessor and original supplier, or between the original supplier and the lessee, that would affect the analysis. This Q&A centres on the principles of construing contracts and the general position for equipment lease and hire agreements. Contract interpretation If a contract does not explicitly provide for an action from which one party seeks to benefit, it must be assessed whether an appropriate term should be implied...