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Topic Date  
CFA's
Curtailing the Increasing Costs Per Claim		 24.06.05 View
Regional Costs Judiciary 01.12.05 View
CFA’s – Simple! 01.03.06 View
CFAs the Story Continues 01.07.07 View
Disclosure of CFA’s both Pre and Post November 2005 31.03.09 View
Corporate Killing
New Legislation		 10.09.03 View
Corporate Manslaughter
 28.05.08 View
Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
 10.02.11 View
Corporate Manslaughter !! STOP PRESS !! 25.02.11 View
Costs
Part 36 - CRU
Williams v Devon County Council – Court of Appeal		 01.05.03 View
New CFA 01.12.05 View
Costs before the event? 02.06.09 View
Costs – Proportionate or not? 26.02.10 View
The Reserve Trap
 18.04.11 View
Interest on Costs
 13.10.11 View
Costs of Accommodation
Roberts v Johnstone		 16.10.00 View
Costs of Care
Has the Sowden Bubble Burst? 		18.07.06 View
Damages
Interest on Damages		 16.10.00 View
General Damages 17.01.06 View
General Damages Part II 22.03.06 View
General Damages Part III 01.05.06 View
General Damages Part IV 18.07.06 View
General Damages Part V 18.09.06

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Guide to the new Ogden Tables 31.01.08

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Free Takaways for Employees 14.12.09

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Disclosure
Tripping up over disclosure		 30.06.03 View
Agency workers - a question of status
 28.04.10 View
Electronic Disclosure
 18.04.11 View
Educational Negligence
Dyslexia Claims - a Review 		07.04.05

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Employers Liability
A basic guide to EL		 26.11.03 View
Two Years Post Phelps 10.07.02 View
Lords call for Reform of Employment Law 29.07.05 View
Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 17.01.06 View
Optional Extras
 31.01.08 View
Good News for Employers
 13.07.09 View
Michael Deadman v Bristol City Council
 17.09.09 View
Agency workers - a question of status
 28.04.10 View
Emergency Services
Can we afford to compensate?
King v Sussex Ambulance Trust		 05.09.02 View
Health and Safety
The Work at Height Regulations 2005 		17.01.06 View
Human Rights
Human Rights		 05.06.01 View
Human Rights – A Direction? 01.05.06 View
Human Rights – Be Quick About Your Human Rights 03.09.07 View
Industrial Disease
Industrial Disease and Injury Claims		 09.03.05 View
The Worried Well 27.11.06 View
Insurance Law
Multiple Insurance - Who Pays When?
 28.05.08     View
Miscellaneous
Investigation – The Opportunities?		 01.03.06 View
Joint And Several Tortfeasors 18.07.06 View
2007: Storm clouds or clouds with silver linings? 22.05.07 View
A Penniless Claimant 22.05.07 View
Time to Revise your Contract Law 03.10.07
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Coroners - The Final Analysis 03.10.07
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Ley v Devon County Council 29.11.07
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Beware the Pedestrian or Pedestrian Beware 27.03.08  View
Agency Workers - Where do we do from here?
28.05.08  View
Do You Know Your ‘Ologies’ From Your ‘Osis?’
31.07.08  View
Are Trees Out To Get Us?
 31.07.08  View
Time to revise your contract law 04.02.09 View
Tackling the Problem in Sport 31.03.09 View
The New Rules on Service of Documents 31.03.09 View
The Limits of Limitation 18.09.09 View
Judgment – The need for a quick response? 26.02.10 View
Sentencing Guidelines Council issue definitive guidelines for Corporate Manslaughter & Health and Safety Offences 26.02.10 View
Witness Statements 28.04.10 View
Can children avoid responsibility? 12.08.10 View
A view from the Dark Side 21.09.10 View
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) 02.12.10 View
The Joy of the Litigant in Person ?? 02.12.10 View
Jackson by the back door?
 03.12.10 View
Baby it’s cold outside
 18.02.11 View
Harper v Surrey County Council
 21.03.11 View
Managing on a Budget
 18.04.11 View
A Captive Audience?
 31.05.11 View
Unlocking the Data Protection Act 1998
 06.06.11 View
Be careful what you write
 25.08.11 View
Don’t slip up on the Highways Act!
 25.08.11 View
Contributory Negligence in Employer’s Liability cases
 14.10.11 View
A Year in the Life
 15.12.11 View
Anti-social media and social-not-working - the issues for employers
 15.12.11 View
Time to revisit the Fireman’s Rule?: Ogwo and Austerity
 15.12.11 View
Negotiation
Practical Negotiation Skills 		01.04.05 View
Refusing to negotiate 01.05.06 View
Occupiers Liability
Some encouraging developments for insurers		 15.03.03 View

Part 36
Williams v Devon County Council – Court of Appeal

01.05.03 View
Get your kicks 27.11.06 View
Revised Part 36 - Kill or Cure? 22.05.07 View
Can you still “Carver” up claims? 12.08.10 View
Police
A Fair Cop 		27.11.06 View
Civil Claims Against the Police 01.07.07 View
Procedure
When Can I Resile?
 19.01.07 View
Are You Being Served?
 29.11.07 View
Personal Injury Multi-Track Code - Pilot Scheme
 28.03.08 View
Psychiatric Injury
Out of Sight Out of Mind		 01.07.07 View
Public Liability
Flood Risk in the 21st Century		 18.09.06 View
Does A Local Authority Owe A Duty of Care? 19.01.07 View
Quantum
Multipliers		 16.10.00 View
Assessing the Quantum of Loss of Pension Rights in Personal Injury Claims 18.09.06 View
Road Traffic
Whiplash - Tips for Defendants		 27.05.05 View
The Impact of Court Appeal 19.01.07 View
Low Velocity - Big Impact
 04.02.09 View
Speeding towards Reform
 10.12.09 View
Is the RTA portal ready for expansion?
 25.08.11 View
Stress
Stress-The issue of Jurisdiction		 03.06.03 View
Court of Appeal restricts Stress Cases 05.02.02 View
Stress - Striking the balance 18.03.02 View
Hatton v Sutherland & Barber v Somerset County Council 01.10.04 View
Is a hot potato unhealthy? 02.06.09 View
Various Case Reviews
Public Sector Case Review		 22.06.01 View
Public Sector Legal Update 09.09.05 View
Atkins – A Review 31.01.08 View
They thought it was all over - well, it is now
 18.03.08 View
Allianz 1 Darren Bent 0
 21.09.10 View
Wilkinson v City of York Council
 31.05.11 View
The turning of the tide: Reasonable Practicability after Baker
 05.01.12 View
 

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