Personal injury

27 September 2021

Proposed changes to the Highway Code: will they improve safety for cyclists and other vulnerable road users?

Over the summer, the government suggested changes to the Highway Code to improve road safety for vulnerable road users. If the proposals are approved, they will change how pedestrians, cyclists and motorists are expected to behave on Britain’s roads.

29 July 2020

Lady Brownlie successful in the Court of Appeal

Brownlie v FS Cairo (Brownlie No.2)

The Court of Appeal has today handed down its judgment by a 2-1 majority has rejected the Defendant’s jurisdiction challenge in this case.  

22 June 2020

Living with a Spinal Injury

Sustaining a spinal injury is a life changing event.  A variety of symptoms can present.  For example, loss of limb function, sensory disturbance or loss of bowel and bladder function.  This makes it essential that an individual who has suffered a spinal injury accesses specialist medical and rehabilitative treatment as soon as possible to achieve the best possible outcome.

19 November 2019

The performance of kindness in medicine and its impact on medical negligence

Can being kind improve the delivery of medical assistance? I think it may well have an impact on the numbers of medical negligence claims brought against the NHS.

3 October 2019

Jurisdictional Gateways in Personal Injury claims

Lady Christine Brownlie (Claimant) v Four Seasons Holdings Incorporated (Defendant) and FS Cairo (Nile Plaza) LLC (Proposed Defendant)