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Updated: March 28, 2024
In April 2021, changes to personal injury law will reduce compensation levels and make it harder for injured people to get legal help. Find out more.
Read moreUpdated: March 28, 2024
The Court of Appeal has verified a High Court decision to extend legal compensation rights to people injured in a road accident on private land.
Read moreUpdated: March 1, 2021
Following a spate of trampoline injuries, all parks will have to demonstrate compliance to the PAS to become members of the UK IATP.
Read moreUpdated: September 13, 2020
On 2nd May 2017 the Department of Health (DoH) closed its consultation on introducing fixed recoverable costs (FRCs) for clinical negligence claims.
Read moreUpdated: September 13, 2020
A company based in Glasgow has been fined after a man died as a consequence of there being insufficient fencing around a construction site in Kirkcaldy.
Read moreUpdated: September 13, 2021
A company in Port Talbot has been fined £67k and ordered to pay costs of £3k after an apprentice was injured when a digger wheel fell on him in April 2016.
Read moreUpdated: September 15, 2022
An ongoing study by a world-renowned pioneer of MRI scanning techniques, Professor Francis Smith of Aberdeen, has shown that whiplash injuries are often not picked up by traditional scanning practices.
Read moreUpdated: September 7, 2020
The Queen's Speech on 21st June included proposed new legislation in the form of a Civil Liability Bill.
Read moreUpdated: October 11, 2016
A farming company in East Anglia has been fined more than £20,000 after it pleaded guilty to unlawfully using a dangerous poison to control rabbits.
Read moreUpdated: November 15, 2022
Head injuries in sport can range from mild concussion, cuts and abrasions, to life threatening or life changing brain injuries.
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