The New UK Labour Government: Implications for Clinical Negligence Claims
By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 31 seconds) In the spirit of a new government and in the interests of full disclosure – this article includes some AI-generated research content. Specifically we asked Chat GPT to ‘Prepare an article for a newsletter […]
Read moreFixed Recoverable Costs for lower value – clinical negligence claims – implementation delay update
By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 1 minute 41 seconds) Temple had already reported in December 2023 that the supplementary consultation on disbursements was taking place with a closing date of 22nd December 2023. As of today the results of the consultation have not […]
Read moreLandmark Clinical Negligence Secondary Victim Appeal Ends in Disappointment for Claimants at the Supreme Court
By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 3 minutes 42 seconds) The Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited judgment on conjoined clinical negligence cases concerning psychiatric injuries suffered by secondary victims. Specifically, the case of Paul which concerned a failure to diagnose a life-threatening condition […]
Read moreFixed Costs Webinar: An overview of the Fixed Recoverable Costs regime
By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships & Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence On 26th September, we hosted a webinar covering the upcoming Fixed Recoverable Costs changes for our valued partners and cover holders. John Ivory joined as the guest speaker and provided an informative and interest presentation on the changes. Such changes […]
Read moreA Reversal of Fortunes? Costs enforcement and the imminent CPR changes
This article was first published in the April 2023 edition of the Law Society’s ‘Litigation Funding’ magazine By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 4 minutes 18 seconds) As you may have seen recently in the legal press, the civil procedure rules have been quietly […]
Read moreQOC(s) are they thinking?
By Matthew Best, Director – ATE Partnerships, Head of Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence (Estimated reading time: 5 minutes 31 seconds) As everybody may now know, 6th April 2023 will see significant changes to CPR 44.14. From this date defendants will also be able to enforce costs orders up to the aggregate amount in money […]
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