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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00 |
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Controversial reforms – which will remove legal aid from clinical negligence – have been delayed for six months. In a written ministerial statement the justice secretary, Kenneth Clarke, said the government intends, subject to parliamentary approval of the Legal Aid, Punishment and Sentencing of Offenders Bill, to implement all the legal aid reforms in April 2013 instead of October 2012.
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Read more... [Government’s legal aid reforms put on hold for six months]
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Written by Personal Injury Newsletter
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00 |
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A bid to impose strict regulation on the hairdressing industry has failed. A Bill from Morecambe MP David Morris was defeated 67-63 in the commons.
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Read more... [Hairdressing Bill blown away]
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Written by Personal Injury Newsletter
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00 |
Unqualified marketing men could be left in charge of running complex personal injury (PI) cases thanks to the government’s plans for the future of PI claims, the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) has warned. APIL president, David Bott, said proposed reforms to the way people can fund legal cases plus a ban on referral fees is an “ominous formula which could lead to marketing men at claims management companies actually running PI cases”.
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Read more... [APIL warns over “ominous formula” of legal reforms]
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Written by Personal Injury Newsletter
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Sunday, 01 January 2012 00:00 |
Patrick Sadd analyses the courts’ approach to vicarious liability in cases which involve abuse
Viewed dispassionately, the rationale for vicarious liability is well established. As Rix LJ put it in Viasystems (Tyneside ) Ltd v Thermal Transfer Ltd [2005] EWCA Civ 1151 (paras 55, 79):
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