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Accident Claims Laws & Personal Injury Law Cases in the UK

Gray v Thames Trains Ltd. & Anor [2007] EWHC 1558 (QB) (06 July 2007)

Damages where Accident Caused Claimant to Behave Criminally. A claimant whose personality changed as a result of the severe post-traumatic stress disorder he suffered as a result of the Ladbroke Grove rail crash, and who was convicted of manslaughter as a direct result of this, was unable to rec......

Green v DB Group Services (UK) Ltd. [2006] EWHC 1898 (QB) (01 August 2006)

A former employee was entitled to damages for psychiatric injury and consequential loss and damage that she suffered as a result of harassment and bullying by her fellow employees. The behaviour of the fellow employees was within the scope of their employment, and closely connected to their work t......

Green v Yorkshire Traction Company Ltd [2001] EWCA Civ 1925 (5 December 2001)

A first instance decision was overturned on appeal where the judge had found that the Defendant had breached its duty towards the Claimant by allowing rainwater to remain on the step of one of its buses. The Claimant had slipped on the rainwater which it was found had been caused by passengers gett......

Grimes v, (1) Hawkins (2) Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, QBD, 3/08/11

Thirlwall J held that the defendant householder was not liable in common law negligence or under section 2 of the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957 in respect of personal injuries sustained by the adult claimant (aged 18) who had dived into his private swimming pool and was thereby rendered tetraplegic......

Grupo Hotelero Urvasco SA v Carey Value Added SL (2012), QBD (Comm) 23/02/12

It was held that the necessity of expert evidence in the instant case could not be determined without seeing an expert report. However, the expert's evidence would at least arguably assist the court and the necessity of that evidence would have to be determined at a later time. In the context of a ......

Gwynn, R (on the application of) v The General Medical Council [2007] EWHC 3145 (Admin) (28 November 2007)

Professional ConductComplaints against the general and vascular surgeon arose in part from procedures carried out more than five years before the complaints. In refusing to stay the disciplinary proceedings the registrar had erred because there were no exceptional circumstances requiring an invest......

Hague v Rexam Glass (Barnsley) Ltd. [2006] EWCA Civ 377 (05 April 2006)

A trial judge had not erred by ruling on a preliminary issue as to diagnosis of hand arm vibration syndrome without hearing oral medical evidence where it was clear to the judge, having heard the claimant's oral evidence, that he did not have any symptoms of the syndrome. ......

Hall v Holker Estate Co Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1422 (17 December 2008)

Defendant Caravan Park Liable for Accident on Football Pitch:The Court of Appeal held that the trial judge had erred in finding that the owners and operators of a caravan park were not liable for an accident that occurred when a portable football goal that should have been pegged to the ground coll......

Hamilton v O'Kane & Anor [2009] EWCA Civ 931 (04 June 2009)

Motorcyclist and Car Driver Were Equally to Blame for Accident:The Court of Appeal held that the rider of a motorcycle and the driver of a car were equally to blame for an accident that occurred when the car driver emerged from a minor road into collision with the motorcyclist who had been travelli......

Hamish McLeod Prentice v. Richard Allan Sandeman [2011] CSOH 18

The pursuer sought damages for professional negligence arising out of the alleged mishandling of his unfair dismissal claim by his solicitor. At this debate, the defender submitted that the pursuer's action was incompetent, and was moreover irrelevant and lacking in specification. The defender subm......

Hampshire Police v Taylor [2013] EWCA Civ 496 - 09/05/13

The Claimant was a police officer who was ordered to clear plants out of a cannabis factory. She suffered personal injury when she cut her thumb opening a window in the cannabis factory. The only risk which had been considered was of irritation to the skin as a consequence of contact between skin a......

Hannigan v Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust [2012] CSOH 152 - 21st September 2012

An action seeking reparation for loss and damage suffered as a consequence of alleged negligence of a consultant and registrar in gynaecology while carrying out a total abdominal hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) and left salpingo-oophorectomy (removal of the left ovary). The issues were whether......

Harding v Pub Estate Company Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 553 (11 May 2005)

Negligence: Stress at Work & Circumstances putting Employer on notice as to risk of injury: It was critical for a judge in a claim for personal injury caused by stress at work to find the circumstances that put the employers on notice that if they did not take action it was reasonably foreseeable t......

Harding v. Wealands [2006] UKHL 32 (5 July 2006)

The English court dealing with a personal injury claim in respect of a road traffic accident that occurred in New South Wales had to apply English law to the assessment of damages as a matter of procedure to be regulated by the law of the forum under the Private International Law (Miscellaneous Pro......

Hardy v Tesco Stores Plc, High Ct, 10/1/2006

Harland & Wolff Plc & Anor v McIntyre [2006] EWCA Civ 287 (28 March 2006)

Fatal Accident Claim. A termination of service payment made to the deceased's estate under a provident fund scheme did not prevent the deceased's widow from recovering Fatal Accidents Act damages in respect of her husband's expectation of receiving retirement benefits from that fund. ......

Harrison & Ors v Technical Sign Co Ltd & Ors [2013] EWCA Civ 1569 - 04/12/13

The Court of Appeal allows appeal against a finding that the relationship between a firm of surveyors and the owners of a shop was not sufficiently proximate to give rise duty of care to those injured by a falling sign. The Appellant, a firm of surveyors, appealed against a decision that the Res......

Harrison v Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust [2013] EWHC 442 (QB) - 08/03/13

The Claimant in this case claimed that she had suffered injury when surgeons in the employment of the Defendant had detached her deltoid muscle from the acromion and failed subsequently to repair it. The Defendant denied liability and in any event argued that the Claimant had issued outside the pri......

Harvey v Plymouth City Council (Rev 1) [2010] EWCA Civ 860 (29 July 2010)

No Implied Licence In Respect Of Reckless Conduct Going Beyond Normal Recreational Activities:The Court of Appeal held that in determining whether a person was an licensee and thus a visitor who was owed a duty of care under the Occupiers' Liability Act 1957, the determinative question was not whet......

Havering London Borough Council v (1) Mark Bowyer (2) James Jones (3) Richard Bowyer [2012] EWHC 2237 (Admin) - 27/07/12

Three individuals involved in bringing a false personal injury claim imprisoned for contempt It was necessary to distinguish between those that had played a principal role in the scheme and those who had supported it. Whilst Mark Bowyer had described himself as the prime mover, and it was accept......

Hawksford Trustees Jersey Ltd (Trustee of the Bald Eagle Trust) v Stella Global UK Ltd [2012] EWCA Civ 987 - 19/07/12

A trial and an appeal from that trial were separate proceedings for the purpose of the Access to Justice Act 1999 s.29. Therefore a premium for after the event insurance, taken out shortly before an appeal, covering the costs of the appeal and the costs of the trial at first instance, was not recov......

Hawley v Luminar Leisure Ltd & Ors [2006] EWCA Civ 18 (24 January 2006)

Nightclub owner vicariously liable for acts of employee doorman. A nightclub was vicariously liable for the acts of a doorman supplied to it under an agreement for the provision of security services since the club had control not only over what the doorman did but how he was to do it. An assault ......

Healthcare at Home Ltd v. The Common Services Agency [2011] CSOH 22

In this action, the pursuer sought the setting aside of a decision of the defender to award a Framework Agreement to BUPA Home Healthcare Ltd. The Framework Agreement was for an extendable period of two years and was for a compounding, dispensing and delivery service of Trastuzumab, with a nursing ......

Helen Given v. James Watt College [2006] CSOH 189

The pursuer had an accident at work on 30 May 2003 when a drinks dispensing machine, from which she obtained hot water for pots of tea or coffee, malfunctioned, and fell heavily to the floor, sustaining severe injuries to her right hip and right wrist. The pursuer claimed damages from the defenders......

Henry Wyse Rodger (AP) v. C & J Contracts Limited

The parties are severely at odds regarding (a) the nature of the work which the pursuer was doing at the time of his accident; and (b) the veracity of his claim to have been an employee of the defender company. As more fully discussed below the defenders maintain that at that time of the accident a......

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