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Clyde and Co’s Gemma Pearce acts for the defendant Background The claimant, Kerry Middleton, brought a high‑value personal injury claim...

Introduction The Sentencing Act 2026 (‘the Act’) received Royal Assent on 22 January 2026 and is likely to reduce the number of custodial...

The Crime and Policing Act 2026 (which received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026) makes a major reform to time limits for civil child sexual...

Law Commission research into consumer class actions On 20 April 2026, the Law Commission announced a new project to examine the benefits...

The High Court judgment of 17 March 2026 in MIM v Sheffield NHS Hospitals Teaching Trust [2026] EWHC 562 (KB) involved a claim by a...

Clinical negligence practitioners will be used to seeing spinal injury claims. Whether due to a delay in diagnosing cauda equina syndrome...

The UK's Crime & Policing Bill 2025 includes a number of provisions which respond to recommendations of IICSA. These include removal of...

Research by Chinese scientists, Qin et al., published in the Cell Metabolism journal, suggests that the active ingredient in many weight...

The UK's Department for Education has recently launched a consultation to gather views on proposed changes to the statutory guidance...

The International & Travel team recently secured an exceptional settlement in a highly complex offshore diving injury case. One that...

Chronic pain remains one of the most complex aspects of personal injury cases, often transforming modest injuries into high value claims,...

In Mr Glyn Cook v TJS Welding and Fabrication Co Ltd & Ors, a noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) claim was dismissed following trial at...