personal injury law
Antonia Ford invited to become a Lexis Nexis expert on their Practical Guidance platform PSL
We are pleased to announce that Antonia Ford has been invited to become a Lexis Nexis expert on their Practical Guidance platform PSL. PSL provides guidance notes and precedent drafting across a wide range of legal disciplines. Antonia has contributed to the available drafting library in the field of Personal Injury. To view her Lexis […]
Duty of Care of Highway Authorities for Grass Verges and the Evidential Issues in a Section 58 Defence – by Palak Sikri
Karpasitis v Hertfordshire City Council [2025] EWCA Civ 788 – Duty of Care of Highway Authorities for Grass Verges and the Evidential Issues in a Section 58 Defence Background In April 2020, while cycling along a familiar path, the Claimant, Mr Karpasitis, attempted to overtake a jogger and, in doing so, rode onto the grass […]
Antonia Ford wins damages in a claim where the existence of a duty of care was in dispute
The Claimant, a community nurse, was injured conducting a regularly scheduled home visit for a vulnerable adult (the Occupant). Unbeknownst to her the Occupant had been transferred out of the property and toxic fumigation had been undertaken at the instruction of the Council. The Council was both the Landlord and the provider of adult social […]
Mixed Injuries post Whiplash Reforms – Where are we now?
The much awaited judgment in the mixed injury test cases of Rabot v Hassam and Briggs v Laditan [2023] EWCA Civ 19 was handed down by the Court of Appeal on 20 January 2023. However, the divided judgment in these leap frog appeals is likely to raise as many questions as it answers and will […]
