Course description
Personal injury lawyers will often find themselves wrestling with whether it is the occupier or the public who are liable in various scenarios, so it is best to come equipped to any case with as thorough and as up to date an understanding as possible.
Antonia Ford presents this comprehensive and informative webinar that assesses the most recent case law developments in the areas of public liability and occupiers’ liability for personal injury practitioners. It will cover changes to fundamental dishonesty, costs, pre-action protocols, secondary victims, duty to warn, cricket and passers-by, contractors, proving a danger, Section 58 defence and much more.
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Training Course Content
Introduction
This webinar is designed to provide a caselaw update on developments in the areas of public liability and occupiers' liability for personal injury practitioners.
What You Will Learn
This webinar will cover the following:
- Fundamental dishonesty
- Development in the Court’s approach to a claimant’s evidence and dishonesty
- Costs
- Developments in the assessment of fixed fees
- Costs and counterclaims
- Pre-action protocols
- Procedural developments in portal and ex-portal cases
- Caselaw Update - Occupiers Liability
- Secondary victims - Paul v The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Duty to warn - Liddle v Bristol City Council
- Cricket and passers-by - Lewis v Wandsworth LBC
- Volenti - White Lion Hotel v James
- Contractors - Mathewson v Crump
- Caselaw Update - Public Liability
- Tree roots and the highway - Barlow v Wigan MBC and JMP v Cardiff CC
- Proving a danger - Walsh v Kirklees BC and Nash v Herfordshire CC
- Section 58 defence - Crosby v Wakfield MDC [2020] and Garwell v North Yorkshire CC
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