OL/PL Update - Key Developments for Personal Injury Lawyers

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

This webinar was recorded on 1st February 2022